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"We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing contrary to His will can occur; therefore when the sinner disobeys His commands, He must have intended this to happen."
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
"Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought."
"I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation."
"Beware the man of the single book"
"Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves."
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
"If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts."
"Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence."
"Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy."
"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
"Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code."
"Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective"
"Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness."
"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
"If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full."
"To fear love is to fear life."
"He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains."
"It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you."
"The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day."