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“Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned”

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“If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument”

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“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”

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“Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice”

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“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

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“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

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“Most people would rather die than think: many do.”

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“I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.”

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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

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“Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead”

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“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite”

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