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"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people."
Morality
"To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all."
God
"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."
Science
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
Education
"I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff."
Content
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
Self-control
"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Man
"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty."
Fact
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
Science
"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."
Empowerment
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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Personal Development
"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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Personal Development
"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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Personal Development
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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Personal Development
"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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Personal Development
"Conscience is God present in man."
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Personal Development
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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Personal Development
"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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Personal Development
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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Personal Development
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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Personal Development
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