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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the...more

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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet...more

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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.