It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.