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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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There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
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.
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
