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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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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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.
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.
