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"Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason."
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"Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself."
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"Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion."
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"Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas."
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"If thou really believe in one God,irrationality is subset of thou logic."
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"Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do."
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"And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake."
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"Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first."
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"For nothing is more democratic than logic, it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."
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"These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing."
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"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient."
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"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."
Education
"On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use."
Philosophy
"A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it."
Society
"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery."
Philosophy
"Is it not the same distance to God everywhere?"
Spiritual
"Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control."
Psychology
"Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life."
Philosophy
"I cannot call somebody 'hard-working' knowing only that they read and write. Even if 'all night long' is added, I cannot say it " not until I know the focus of all this energy."
Work
"It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body, for it is better to die than to live badly."
Spiritual
"Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire."
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