“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.”
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“With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.”
― The Real Face of Atheism
― The Real Face of Atheism
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
(Letter 16, 1657)”
― The Provincial Letters
(Letter 16, 1657)”
― The Provincial Letters
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