Quote #43

Religion... comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion.

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  1. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
  2. Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
  3. It must be admitted that women have but little sense of justice, and this is no doubt connected with the preponderance of envy in their men…
  4. Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
  5. In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
  6. Sex is the mathematical urge repressed.
  7. I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicl…
  8. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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