Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
Victory; a matter of staying power.
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Don't make excuses, make good.
Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
Laughter is higher than all pain.
Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.
To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.
When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods.
If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
Live truth instead of professing it.
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