The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder,no longer marvel is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed . It was the experience of mystery--- even if mixed with fear that engender religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we can not penetrate, our perception of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty ,which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds It is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures , or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would Iwant to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts, I an satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the exiting world, togather with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny,of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
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