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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 key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
