“What a curious portrait this is for the supposed founder of a religion. The Old Boy didn't preach. He didn't organize or promote. He wrote a few pages on request, rode off on a water buffalo, and that was it was far as he was concerned.”
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“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”

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“In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the...”

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“[...] if we were to find ourselves with a single religion tomorrow, it is likely that there would be two the day after.”

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