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Scheduled as Daily Quote: 1909-05-22
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There are two gross and harmful prejudices: first, that God who made the world and man gave him a concrete law, expressed in words; second, that the world known through our senses is in reality as it is presented to us, and our life, i.e. the law of our life, is defined by our relations with this world. The first prejudice is widespread among the masses, but gross as it may be, it is less gross and less harmful than the prejudice of the educated minority regarding the organization of life, a prejudice which arises from the attitude towards the world known by the senses of those who do not recognize that their own view of to the world it is a belief, when in fact it is only a belief, even a ridiculous one.

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There are two gross and harmful prejudices: first, that God who made the world and man gave him a concrete law, expressed in words; second, that the world known through our senses is in reality as it is presented to us, and our life, i.e. the law of our life, is defined by our relations with this world. The first prejudice is widespread among the masses, but gross as it may be, it is less gross and less harmful than the prejudice of the educated minority regarding the organization of life, a prejudice which arises from the attitude towards the world known by the senses of those who do not recognize that their own view of to the world it is a belief, when in fact it is only a belief, even a ridiculous one.

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Romanian

"Există două prejudecăți grosolane și dăunătoare: prima, că Dumnezeu care a făcut lumea și pe om i-a dat acestuia o lege concretă, exprimată în cuvinte; a doua, că lumea cunoscută prin simțurile noastre e în realitate așa cum ni se prezintă, iar viața noastră, adică legea vieții noastre, se definește prin raporturile noastre cu aceasta lume. Prima prejudecată e răspândită în mase, dar oricât ar fi de grosolană e mai puțin grosolană și mai puțin dăunătoare decât prejudecata minoritații educate privind organizarea vieții, prejudecată ce decurge din atitudinea față de lumea cunoscută prin simțuri a acelora care nu recunosc că propria lor viziune asupra lumii e o credința, când de fapt nu-i decât credință, ba încă una ridicolă."

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