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Mentally disturbed or emotionally hysterical persons can neither find Truth nor produce beauty, except during temporary lucid periods. Religious cults founded by them can only attract their own kind. Art created by them can only find acceptance because of supposed daring originality. Both are unhealthy and increase the existing confusion. Truth is eminently sane. Reality is breathtakingly beautiful. Popular externalized religion must rise into internalized mysticism, but the first must avoid the danger of superstition and the second avoid aberration. This is why both attain fulfilment in the safety of philosophy.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 6 : Philosophy and Religion > # 60