"Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace."
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"Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude."
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"I am nothing and should be everything."
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"Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction."
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"I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t."
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"Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them."
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"Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality, and who are the constituted guardians of religion. Enquiry, it seems, suits not them. They have drawn the line, beyond which human reason shall not pass -- above which human virtue shall not aspire! All that is without their faith or above their rule, is immorality, is atheism, is -- I know not what."
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"Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display."
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"From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason."
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"If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?"
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"Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man."
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"You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church."
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"I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life."
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"A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty."
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"Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?"
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"A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system."
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"It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious."
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"God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third."
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"Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite."
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"I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove."
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