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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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