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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

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I could prove God statistically.

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The best mirror is an old friend.

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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

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