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Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

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For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

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The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

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The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by re...more

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He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

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I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.

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It will be said that, although God’s law is inscribed in our hearts, Scripture is nevertheless the Word of God, and it is no more permissible to say o...more

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Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish min...more

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The purpose of the state is really freedom.

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

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whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.