Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest the soldier the poet. To know to kill to create.
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion whatever else it has done has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
We are pre-disposed for fantasy there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
All the different nations in the world despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life still have one thing in common and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.