"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."
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"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."
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"It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees?"
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"There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death."
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"Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism."
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"What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?"
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"Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock."
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"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism."
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"There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it."
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"Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail."
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"Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God."
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"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."
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"Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose."
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"Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs."
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"An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God."
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"I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought."
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"Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning."
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"Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well."
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"When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date."
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