“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
