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| | *''“I myself am convinced that the [[theory of evolution]], especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.”'' | | *''“I myself am convinced that the [[theory of evolution]], especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.”'' |
| | * ''"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."'' | | * ''"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."'' |
| − | * ''“If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.”'' | + | * ''“If [[God]] is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, [[Hitler]] or [[Hugh Hefner]].”'' |
| − | * ''“The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.”'' | + | * ''“The orgasm has replaced the [[Cross]] as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.”'' |
| | *''“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”'' | | *''“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”'' |
| − | *''“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.”'' (The End of Christendom) | + | *''“[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the [[Enlightenment]], that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly [[paradise]]] whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.”'' (The End of Christendom) |
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