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If there existed no external ...

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

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The greater the state, the mo...

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

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We must not only cease our pr...

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

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There is no greatness where t...

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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In all history there is no wa...

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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The changes in our life must ...

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

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Truth, like gold, is to be ob...

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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All happy families resemble o...

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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Joy can only be real if peopl...

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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Without knowing what I am and...

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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It is amazing how complete is...

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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Even in the valley of the sha...

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

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The law condemns and punishes...

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

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There is something in the hum...

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

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Debates conceal rather than r...

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

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A man is like a fraction whos...

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

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Am I mad, to see what others ...

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

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I believe that order is bette...

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

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Muhammad has always been stan...

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

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The great tragedy of atheists...

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

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