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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased.…
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And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity…
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Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of…
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I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as…
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