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The language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

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The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

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The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

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What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

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Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

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Philosophy cannot change the laws of nature; but she may teach us to accommodate to them.

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I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family...

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I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.

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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

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The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

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Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

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You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

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The press does not speak the voice of the nation. It does not even speak the voice of those who write for it.

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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

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The mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

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Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

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To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing...

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Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy, is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities.

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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

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Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

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Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

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The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.

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It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.

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Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

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Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.

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