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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

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Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

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Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

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As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

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In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

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A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.

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Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

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Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

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Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

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The word good has many meanings.

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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

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THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

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