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What is the difference between superstition and established religion? Superstitions are primitive and religions are more advanced. The former creates an imaginary threat. The latter developed an imaginary rescue to its imaginary threat.

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The mind is unable to bear a contradiction against itself. He would sooner lose himself in a thousand crossword puzzles than sit for five minutes in his own thought. The contradiction is so prominent, so obvious to the solitary thinker that he is forced to hunt down an external duty to occupy his mind – or grapple with himself. And one who grapples with himself expands himself – finds another door in the “labyrinth of the breast.”  We do not fear the locked door.   We fear that the door might actually open. To believe the door is locked relieves us of our task.  One’s own contradiction is either a locked door or a crack that one recognizes and crawls through to continue the journey.
 
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If being well-adjusted were a virtue, then honesty would be an inability to bury a contradiction.
 

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