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When joy disappears, look for your mistake

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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

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As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

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Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.

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By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

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Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

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Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

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Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

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Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

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But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

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But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

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It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

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Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

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The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.

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I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.

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Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.

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There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

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