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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

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It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are b...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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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly ...more

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The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached by chance; for while reason, being impersonal, ma...more

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The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not the man who holds such-and-such views but the man w...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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The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and work...more

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The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.

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The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant f...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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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

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You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so l...more

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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the god...more

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Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, b...more