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"I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness."
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"God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners."
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"God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners."
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"Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind's behavior is pathological; it is an admixture of instinct and reason, kindness and cruelty, immorality and seeking redemption."
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"Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it."
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"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."
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"A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin."
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"To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin."
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"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence."
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"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin."
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"I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."
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"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence."
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"Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself."
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"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."
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"Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change."
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"When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force."
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"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
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"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them."
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"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
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"All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy."
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