There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone
This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
This is a pretty fable, and I will not deny that it is logically possible, but that is the utmost that I will concede.
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the `common man'.
Those who first advocated religious toleration were thought wicked, and so were the early opponents of slavery.
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