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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

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Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

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To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.

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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without...more

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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.