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"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."

"It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?"

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."

"The Jews and the Arabs should settle their dispute in the true spirit of Christian charity."
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"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."

"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."

"Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all."

"For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period."

"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."

"Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments."
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