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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.…
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing…
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What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man…
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Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have…
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The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience…
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How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?…
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Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can…
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Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they…
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel,…
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I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop…
— Paul Dirac
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If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible…
— Alexis Carrel
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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
— Confucius
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It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of…
— Eleanor Coppola
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The truth is that Ron is my hero. He's always there for his friends - sometimes belligerently, but there nevertheless. He's also…
— Rupert Grint
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It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the…
— Epicurus
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DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
— Ambrose Bierce
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How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?…
— Baron d'Holbach
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A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
— Nathaniel Branden
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It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at…
— Samuel Johnson
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A man who is too afraid to admit his fears is a man who won’t overcome them.
— LeCrae
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The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the…
— Phineas Quimby
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