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| It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion |
| Mankind; Religion |
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| It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly |
| Possessions |
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| It is true that if we ever did stop to think about the cosmos we might find it uncomfortable. The sun may grow cold or blow up; the earth may lose its atmosphere and become uninhabitable |
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| It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no reason whatsoever for supposing it to be true |
| Uncategorized |
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| It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form that destroys their ideals |
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| It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go |
| Anger |
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| Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. |
| Italy |
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| Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice |
| Justice; Law and lawyers |
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| Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned |
| Life |
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| Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. |
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| Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children |
| Love |
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| Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. |
| Love |
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| Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world |
| Relationships |
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| Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery |
| Machines |
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| Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b |
| Men; Superiority; Women |
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| Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones |
| Animals; Belief; Men |
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| Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety |
| Mankind; Men; Pride |
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| Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. |
| Uncategorized |
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| Man, condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness |
| Love |
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