Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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dont let the old break you; let the love make you.

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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

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