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School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
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It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.
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Jun 15, 2014 13:57
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
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Jun 15, 2014 13:57
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
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Jun 15, 2014 13:57
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Jun 15, 2014 13:58
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Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they'd be married, too.
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Jun 15, 2014 13:59
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gonna wait for some other wise posters to drop wisdom tidbits to live by for a bit here.
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Jun 15, 2014 13:59
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Heartbroken 2Twice posted:if u don't love me at my worst, u don't deserve me at my best. exceptionally wise quote from Mr. Manson imo
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Jun 15, 2014 14:00
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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
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Jun 15, 2014 14:08
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived. Huxley laughed the devils out of the Gadarene swine. Not the laws of the United States but the mother-in-law joke brought the Mormons to surrender. Not the horror of it but the absurdity of it killed the doctrine of infant damnation. But the razor edge of ridicule is turned by the tough hide of truth. How loudly the barber-surgeons laughed at Huxley—and how vainly! What clown ever brought down the house like Galileo? Or Columbus? Or Darwin? . . . They are laughing at Nietzsche yet . . .
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Jun 15, 2014 16:07
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No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.
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Jun 15, 2014 16:08
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The bitter, of course, goes with the sweet. To be an American is, unquestionably, to be the noblest, grandest, the proudest mammal that ever hoofed the verdure of God's green footstool. Often, in the black abysm of the night, the thought that I am one awakens me with a blast of trumpets, and I am thrown into a cold sweat by contemplation of the fact. I shall cherish it on the scaffold; it will console me in Hell. But there is no perfection under Heaven, so even an American has his small blemishes, his scarcely discernible weaknesses, his minute traces of vice and depravity.
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