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• Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
• The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and…
• God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates…
• I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong…
• If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology…
• The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself,…
• Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to…
• The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the…
• Chance is a name for our ignorance.
• If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some…
• The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
• The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his…

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