My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
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The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.
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The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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