~ Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject ~  ~ Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. ~ ~ Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race ~ ~ Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly ~ ~ Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~ ~ It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. ~ ~ Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ~ ~ Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. ~ ~ Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~ ~ The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ~ ~ Vanity is a motive of immense potency. ~ ~ What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. ~ ~ We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. ~ ~ Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate ~ ~ Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know ~ Most Popular Topics:
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