Fear is the mother of morality.
From Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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