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- The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
- By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely…
- Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one…
- All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush…
- Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with…
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple…
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
- Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure…
- A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what…
- A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a…
- Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me…
- I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an…
- I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
- There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on…
- I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they…
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