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The Important Things Are Always Simple.

Condemnation Before Investigation Is The Highest Form Of Ignorance.

Conceptions Without Experience Are Void; Experience Without Conceptions Is Blind.

Schools Need Not Preach Political Doctrine To Defend Democracy. If They Shape Men Capable Of Critical Thought And Trained In Social Attitudes, That Is All That Is Necessary.

The Religious Geniuses Of All Ages Have Been Distinguished By This Kind Of Religious Feeling, Which Knows No Dogma And No God Conceived In Man's Image; So That There Can Be No Church Whose Central Teachings Are Based On It. Hence It Is Precisely Among The Heretics Of Every Age That We Find Men Who Were Filled With This Highest Kind Of Religious Feeling And Were In Many Cases Regarded By Their Contemporaries As Atheists, Sometimes Also As Saints. Looked At In This Light, Men Like Democritus, Francis Of Assisi, And Spinoza Are Closely Akin To One Another.