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“So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
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“I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”
― Letter to a Christian Nation
― Letter to a Christian Nation
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”
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“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”
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“If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.”
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