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Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
 
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
 
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
 
History is made by historians. No event becomes a historic event unless historians turn it into one.
 
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
 
Everyone needs to be loved, especially when they do not deserve it.
 
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
 
Physics is becoming the study of organization. In this way … it will converge with biology and psychology.
 
The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.
 
Time is just memory mixed in with Desire.
 
Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.
 
Mediocrity is forgiven more easily than talent.
 
What we find in philosophy is trivial; it does not teach us new facts, only science does that.
 
Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
 
I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.
 
No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.
 
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
 
What I say to myself - who says it? Who does he say it to?
 
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
 
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
 
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