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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

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At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder a...more

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IF [GOD] HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED?

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God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

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A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

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If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he kno...more

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Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mor...more

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Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make ...more

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You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence a...more