The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

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The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

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The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

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No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

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The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

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The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

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