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No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.