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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 04, 2026 01:29PM

“Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

tags: action, eden, faith, garden-of-eden, ignorance, knowledge, myth, religion, skepticism, superstition, thought, tree-of-knowledge

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“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: epicurean, epicureanism, epicurus, greece, moral-philosophy, philosophy-rome, secular-ethics, secular-morality

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“People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe”
― Hippocrates

tags: epilepsy, fallacy, god-of-the-gaps, ignorance, knowledge, superstition, understanding

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