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"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
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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."
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
"Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us."
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"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."
"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."
"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."
"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."
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