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"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."
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"Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony."
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"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."
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"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."
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"Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What's worse is that he is now running amok."
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"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."
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"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."
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"The doubter doesn't sure which one is right,but it tends to demean other people's beliefs."
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"The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs."
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"Fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."
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"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."
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"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
Business
"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
Thought
"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
Education
"Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother."
Equality
"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear."
Fear
"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."
Faith
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
Man
"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
Knowledge
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
Men
"Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards."
Time
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