There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.