The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefactionLeo Tolstoy
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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