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The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.


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TERRY PRATCHETT The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
EDWARD O. WILSON The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
E. O. WILSON He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes...
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LUDWIG VON MISES Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
OVID Real atheist is not the one that does not believe in an imaginary big monkey, but the one that gives...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything b...
LEO TOLSTOY Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
MENCIUS It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not...
THOMAS PAINE It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not...
THOMAS PAINE Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does no...
NICOLAS GOMEZ DAVILA What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God...
BORIS PASTERNAK She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
TERRY PRATCHETT He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am in my ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does...
CHIEF SEATTLE If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects...
CARL JUNG Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe w...
THOMAS PAINE This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected l...
CHIEF SEATTLE Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that o...
LEO TOLSTOY Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe w...
THOMAS PAINE The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be...
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough...
MERYL STREEP Not to be a little superstitious.
JASON BOHN I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
ALBERT CAMUS Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmaker...
MIKHAIL STRABO [He was] not a Soviet apologist. [He] did not believe in anything at all. He is the type of modern m...
JOHN P. VUKASIN JR. ... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And y...
KAREN TAYLEUR And those who disbelieve say concerning those who believe: If it had been a good, they would not hav...
QURAN That is because they believe, then disbelieve, so a seal is set upon their hearts so that they do no...
QURAN There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is...
BOB PHILLIPS IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
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NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares no...
ERIC HOFFER The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER Fear not the man who fears God, but the one who fears you.
VIKRANT PARSAI Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to con...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL A man does not have to show pride in his children by endless talk; One can see it in his face as he ...
STEVEN R. DIXON Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ...
ERIN MORGENSTERN Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
RALPH BELLAMY The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The mind only wishes for things that it fears it can not attain.
DANIEL TUCKER An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER Muhammad does not believe in violence, Muhammad does not believe in punishment. He is the role model...
HUSSAM AYLOUSH Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the ...
HOMER In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU And when those who disbelieve see you, they do not take you but for one to be scoffed at: Is this he...
QURAN Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
PLAUTUS A man should be religious, not superstitious.
JOHN GAY I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored...
MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. ...
THEODORE PARKER A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. LEWIS A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C.S. LEWIS Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
CALVIN COOLIDGE It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
SIR JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, b...
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He, who does not believe that God wants this bit of sand to lie in this particular place, does not b...
HASIDIC PROVERB Thankfully, I'm not superstitious,
FRANK HADDEN He did not smile at his employees, he did not take them out for drinks, he never inquired about thei...
AYN RAND Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, a...
EPICTETUS We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
EPICTETUS I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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CRISS JAMI I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse ...
THOMAS PAINE For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics...
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GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because t...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of ...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves.
ERALDO BANOVAC I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult pas...
JORGE LUIS BORGES Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
ISABEL ALLENDE Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even...
SIGMUND FREUD We thought too much.
Because while hatred is a fire only man feels, he does not hate the beast ...
MEAGAN SPOONER That they believe in you does not make them your disciple
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DONALD MARQUIS (D.R.P. MARQUIS) ("DON MARQUIS")

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PLUTARCH Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
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PLUTARCH To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good...
PLUTARCH Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
PLUTARCH But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of tha...
PLUTARCH Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
PLUTARCH To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
PLUTARCH To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is pa...
PLUTARCH The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it ...
PLUTARCH Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
PLUTARCH We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use ...
PLUTARCH All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a ...
PLUTARCH Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
PLUTARCH Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.
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PLUTARCH It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is...
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PLUTARCH For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
PLUTARCH . . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, ...
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PLUTARCH Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
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PLUTARCH A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it ...
PLUTARCH He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
PLUTARCH He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
PLUTARCH Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.
PLUTARCH Time is the wisest of all counselors.
PLUTARCH The wildest colts only make the best horses.
PLUTARCH God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
PLUTARCH Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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PLUTARCH Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was...
PLUTARCH A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you c...
PLUTARCH Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking ...
PLUTARCH Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
PLUTARCH Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
PLUTARCH The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
PLUTARCH It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration--nay, it is a...
PLUTARCH When the candles are out all women are fair.
PLUTARCH Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
PLUTARCH An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
PLUTARCH If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
PLUTARCH Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
PLUTARCH Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCH The wildest colts make the best horses.
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PLUTARCH The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations a...
PLUTARCH The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
PLUTARCH No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
PLUTARCH Neither blame or praise yourself.
PLUTARCH To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
PLUTARCH The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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PLUTARCH The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
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PLUTARCH The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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PLUTARCH The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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PLUTARCH For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
PLUTARCH An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
PLUTARCH It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
PLUTARCH So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
PLUTARCH No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
PLUTARCH Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
PLUTARCH As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that...
PLUTARCH Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's privat...
PLUTARCH The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune
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PLUTARCH Also the two-edged tongue of mighty Zeno, who, Say what one would, could argue it untrue
PLUTARCH Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide differenc...
PLUTARCH Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very hap...
PLUTARCH I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and posse...
PLUTARCH Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world
PLUTARCH As Caesar was at supper the discourse was of death - which sort was the best, "That," said he, "whic...
PLUTARCH When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "s...
PLUTARCH There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usage of man's...
PLUTARCH It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, nay, it is a...
PLUTARCH Reason speaks and feeling bites
PLUTARCH Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone.
PLUTARCH A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chas...
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PLUTARCH When the candles are out all women are fair
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PLUTARCH Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
PLUTARCH What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?
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PLUTARCH He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself
PLUTARCH Abstain from beans.
PLUTARCH Character is long-standing habit.
PLUTARCH Themosticles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me;...
PLUTARCH His thrust, however, was somewhat feeble, owing to the inflammation in his hand,
PLUTARCH Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by spe...
PLUTARCH The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds
PLUTARCH But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of tha...
PLUTARCH we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in eit...
PLUTARCH The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not sp...
PLUTARCH Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must tak...
PLUTARCH Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neg...
PLUTARCH It is better to have no opinion of God at all than such as one as is unworthy of him; for the one is...
PLUTARCH Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny
PLUTARCH A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech
PLUTARCH God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse
PLUTARCH In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker
PLUTARCH The wildest colts make the best horses
PLUTARCH If you live with a cripple, you will learn to limp
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PLUTARCH It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors
PLUTARCH A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PLUTARCH If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor
PLUTARCH By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from...
PLUTARCH [Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now...
PLUTARCH Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken litt...
PLUTARCH In Springtime, O Dionysos,
To thy holy temple come,
To Elis with thy Graces,
Rushing ...
PLUTARCH Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first m...
PLUTARCH The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch fou...
PLUTARCH I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
PLUTARCH For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not...
PLUTARCH Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder...
PLUTARCH A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no...
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