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| Psychological Subjects | The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts. |
| Psychological Subjects | We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. |
| Religion | The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. |
| Religion | For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. |
| Society | But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on. |
| Society | No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. |
| Society | Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. |
| Society | God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters. |
| Society | Nature abhors a moron. |
| Society | Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again. |
| Society | All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. |
| Suffering | How little it takes to make life unbearable, a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. |
| Taste | No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. |
| Temptation | Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body. |
| Temptations | Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. |
| Theology | Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. |
| Vote | Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. |
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