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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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Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
— Joseph Brodsky
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Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for…
— Charlie Brooker
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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
— William Hazlitt
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Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it…
— Todd Solondz
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Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted.…
— Steven Pinker
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
— Bill Hicks
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
— Andre Malraux
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You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's…
— Miranda July
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