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If religion is only human, and its form is man’s form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

— Émile Chartier Les Dieux [The Gods (1934)

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Happiness is a reward that comes to those that have not looked for it.

Propos sur le bonheur [On Happiness (1928)

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.

One must preach life, not death; spread hope, not fear and cultivate joy, man's most valuable treasure. That is the secret of the greatest of the wise, and it will be the light of tomorrow.

Propos sur le bonheur [On Happiness (1928)

Never be insolent unless it is a deliberate decision, and only toward a man more powerful than yourself.

Propos sur le bonheur [On Happiness (1928)

Thought is saying no, and it is to itself that thought says no.

Propos sur la religion [Remarks on religion (1924)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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