alanbwt on Nostr: "Morals are a by-product of religion, necessary as they are. For creativity and ...
"Morals are a by-product of religion, necessary as they are. For creativity and sanity man needs to have, or at least to feel, a meaningful relation to and union with life, with reality itself. It is not enough that he be related to a human group or a human ideal, for he knows that men and peoples die, and that beyond them is a more permanent reality."
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit
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