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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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My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
