49) Intelligence is far too generous a word to be wasted on intellectuals.
50) We neither need secularism 'more than ever' nor a return to religion in its corrupted and degenerative state. What we need is to be able to act with more kindness and compassion and impartiality, unaffected by other people's chemistry. We can start by having the humility to question our opinions and our constant need to justify them.
51) In order to know 'the Truth', as opposed to 'our truth', a very refined quality of energy has to penetrate the human heart.
52) If we think about the way we use the words 'faith' and 'belief', when removed from their ordinary religious associations, we realise that they mean something quite different. We are quite open to the fact that we may have been naive to believe something which turns out to be untrue whereas we say that we have faith in something or someone because of the confidence that previous and repeated experience gives us.
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