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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is,…
— John Stuart Mill
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When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In…
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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the…
— Joseph Black
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I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal,…
— Albert Einstein
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Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
— Unknown Author
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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify…
— Thomas Huxley
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Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be…
— Leo Tolstoy
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
— Livy
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