This is a funny thing to say, presumed in the first place, but the irony is that it requires deep and intense study of him to understand that it's true
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I don't think that great art is supposed to be satisfying, and perhaps it's true that people who look for total satisfaction from life should become religious. I'd vouchsafe that the best of those who adore and appreciate art realize that life is about only intermittent satisfaction--that satisfaction is for sexual affairs and trips to the ice cream store, and maybe, maaaybe for old age--but the profoundness of reality, change, progress, whatever means of life's best exhilaration are what should be sought from art and from the best of life. Not answers or solutions; you're right, the fallacy of those things is found in religion. I'm speaking on the conceptual level; science is where, on the practical level, one can actually find answers
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I don't associate the existence of absolute Truth-with-a-capital-T with the concept of religion in any degree. This is because it is a mistake, and a serious mistake, to associate them, even if you're simply saying "Yes, I believe there is truth. Whatever that truth is is what I call religion." This is dangerous for the very simple and I think obvious reason that Religion does not, has not meant that for all of human history, it has meant something else. Literally every religion has presumed something of its own truth and its own claim to truth, without exception. It has gone beyond the claim "I think there is absolute Truth
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