The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
If we think that this search for God is a vain search, and that there is no reality to be discovered, … then the history of religion becomes a study of the aberrations of the human mind.
If it be a short and violent death, we have no leisure to fear it; if otherwise, I perceive that according as I engage myself in sickness, I do naturally fall into some disdain and contempt of life.
If you’re not shocked by quantum theory, then you don’t understand it.
Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Socrates said, ‘Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live’.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
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