The Coloured Universe

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Albert Einstein

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

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Bertrand Russell

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What happiness would it be for those who live among us, if our external appearance were always a true mirror of our hearts; if decorum were but virtue; if the maxims we professed were the rules of our conduct; and if real philosophy were inseparable from the title of a philosopher!

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Simone de Beauvoir

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

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Herbert Marcuse

Many people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

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Alfred North Whitehead

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

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How can you answer a man who tells you that he would rather obey god than men, and who is therefore sure to deserve heaven in cutting your throat?

Philosophical Dictionary

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Auguste Comte

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

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I, to great extent, agree that he is a big failure.

Still see the insight in him flickering.

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Sigmund Freud

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of 'Creation'... We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

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George Orwell

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

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이 구절을 읽다가 무지하게 웃다가 결국은 책을 사서 나왔던 기억이 난다,

개인의 취향과 신념과의 사이에 세들어사는 무수한 모순들을 한 구절로 간명하게,

으...지금도 미치도록 웃긴다,

그래서 허탈하다,