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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation read more
Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, "it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.".
...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it read more
...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it read more
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
