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«The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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ceaselessly, decisive, human origin, origin, questioning, The opposition, the Origin
«There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.»
«The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice»
Author: Clarence Darrow
(Lawyer, Speaker, Writer)
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childish, cowardice, origin, the Origin
«What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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accordance, affords, closely, explained, grossly, index, indexes, indices, instincts, insufficient, myths, offered, on the other hand, origin, overwhelming, scrutinize, scrutinized, scrutinizing, slightest, the Index, the Origin, unconscious
«We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself . . . We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
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human origin, know nothing, origin, psyche, studied, the Origin
«What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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origin, philosophers, the Origin
«The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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Atheism
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for the most part, hypothesis, impudent, misguide, misguided, origin, recourse, scholars, The Creation, the Origin
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