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As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not th...more

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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

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When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that...more

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Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no ...more

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All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

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Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are ...more

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary,destructive ...more

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A strange mystery it is that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth...more