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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe. - Author object (89)
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it. - Author object (89)
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. - Author object (89)
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. - Author object (89)
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. - Author object (89)
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. - Author object (89)
Il est bien malaisé ... d'ôter à des insensés des chaînes qu'ils révèrent. (<em>It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.</em>) - Author object (89)
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. - Author object (89)
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. - Author object (89)
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere. - Author object (89)
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. - Author object (89)
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." (<em>Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville</em>, May 16, 1767) - Author object (89)
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away? - Author object (89)
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. - Author object (89)
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce. - Author object (89)
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor. - Author object (89)
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. - Author object (89)
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well - Author object (89)
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. - Author object (89)
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. - Author object (89)