Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.
(The Gods Are Athirst, 1912)

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Life teaches us that we are never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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