Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. -Bertrand Russell

 

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.


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The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.

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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

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