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"Those who fear life are already three parts dead."
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"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."

"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

"The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature."

"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."

"Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?"

"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."

"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."

"[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
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