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"Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with."
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"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."
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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
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"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."
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"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"
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"When people feel doubt in their hearts, a certainty might be felt in an ice cream."
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"But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese."
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"Doubt everything. Find your own light."
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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
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"When in doubt, do it."
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"Questioning anything within doubt, will just bring mind to no certainty."
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"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world."
Happiness
"However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it."
Balance
"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery."
Cause
"Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?"
Action
"The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else."
Heart
"God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect."
God
"Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed."
Compassion
"Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others."
Desire
"People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable."
Love
"The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves."
Happiness
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