Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?'
'Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.'
'Sounds to me like a euphemism for "freaky cult." '
'Freaky, you say?'
'Hell yes!' the kid said, standing up. 'I heard what they do inside those secret buildings! Weird candlelight rituals with coffins, and nooses, and drinking wine out of skulls. Now that's freaky!'
Langdon scanned the class. 'Does that sound freaky to anyone else?'
'Yes!' they all chimed in.
Langdon feigned a sad sigh. 'Too bad. If that's too freaky for you, then I know you'll never want to join my cult.'
Silence settled over the room. The student from the Women's Center looked uneasy. 'You're in a cult?'
Langdon nodded and lowered his voice to a conspiratorial whisper. 'Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh.'
The class looked horrified.
Langdon shrugged. 'And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.'
The classroom remained silent.
Langdon winked. 'Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.


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Enjoy it. One way or another, your days are numbered.
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My friends, I am not saying I know for a fact that there is no God. All I am saying is that if there...
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Seek and ye shall find.
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We are now perched on a strange cusp of history, a time when the world feels like it’s been turned...
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Never make a promise you cannot keep.
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Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triump...
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If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.
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Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that sci...
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The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece
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I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have t...
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The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.
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Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of th...
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Seek the goodness, become the goodness.D
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From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole,
'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold.
The p...
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Science tells me God must exist.
My mind tells me I'll never understand God.
My heart tell...
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It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.
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But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its a...
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Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.
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One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.
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If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!
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Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. T...
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Buddha had said:
"Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hea...
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No love is greater than that of a father for His son.
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the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!
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Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it ...
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Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
Camerlengo Carlo Ve...
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Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me...
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Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.
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The media is the right arm of anarchy.
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Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand.
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The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the worl...
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Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in oppos...
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TRUTH."
"Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul. Maybe we all have the sa...
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Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile...
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Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.
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Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.
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He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every count...
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the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths
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Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian...
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Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.
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We all fear what we do not understand.
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Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrum...
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Darkness feeds on apathy.
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Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas ar...
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Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death bef...
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The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.
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Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new lig...
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Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.
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Gut?”
“General Unified Theory.” Kohler quipped. “The theory of everything.
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Leonardo believed his research had the
potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. ...
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