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The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfiguring and infi...more

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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

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All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to...more

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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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In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good.

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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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The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but...more

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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

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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 and ...more