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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and…
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer.…
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show…
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves…
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention…
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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be…
— Jonathan Schell
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Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect…
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That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
— Armstrong Williams
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All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image…
— William Butler Yeats
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their…
— Maimonides
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other…
— John Locke
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The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found…
— Charles Dickens
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Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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