"The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our..."
- Albert Einstein
"Where God is like the sun, the Devil is like a raindrop. There is no 'God vs. Satan' because they aren't even that close in power and authority. The former is very patient; the latter is at mercy."
- Criss Jami
"In truth, to go for a walk with one's eyes open is enough to demonstrate that humanity is divided into two classes of individuals whose clothes, faces, bodies, smiles, gaits, interests, and occupation..."
- Simone de Beauvoir
"Dualism will shatter, facade will fade; When thee truly want to know thyself,Truth shall not evade."
- Sneha Agarwal
"Manichean dualism is the single worst idea people ever came up with — this notion that you can divide humankind into the children of light and the children of darkness."
- James K. Morrow
"The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in the lab by researchers. If we allow the mental its own existence as a cat..."
- William Hirstein
"To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her--is it..."
- Gregory Maguire
"Human life is inherently dualistic. It consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, including rivalries between subject and object, mind and matter, and conflict between the benevolent an..."
- Kilroy J. Oldster
"To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before the Jews attained to it. Zoroaster and his earliest followers w..."
- John E. Remsburg
"For this world has neither worth nor weight with God; so slight it is, it weighs not with God so much as a pebble or a single clod of earth; as I am told, God has created nothing more hateful to Him t..."
- al-Hasan al-Basri