“Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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