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"When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have always been completely misunderstood and never fully appreciated until they were dead."
"I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment."
"Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections."
"God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?"
"Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed."
"Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right."
"No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you."
"Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me."
"When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed"
"Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition."
"The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort."
"Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better."
"A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar."
"The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more."
"At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement."
"Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched."
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise."
"A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort."
"Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort."
"In prison, illusions can offer comfort."
