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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)
I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government, and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws.
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once and a while, you could miss it.
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
