Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
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So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword.
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
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To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature, and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth.
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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!
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Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
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Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
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If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
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