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"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."
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"[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."

"The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men."

"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."

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"Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities."

"Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform."

"I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply: "Oh, but you forget the good God." Apparently they conceive of the Deity add a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to see through bathroom walls, but who is foiled by bathrobes."

"Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society."

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
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