Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
Source: Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter IV
“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."”
Source: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
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