“If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.”
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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
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If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
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