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"It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing."

"As for the belief that humanity is mostly good, Secular humanism, when in that alignment, always presumes the existence of a higher power, or some god-like influence on man. Because it then becomes th..."

"In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success"

"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."

"Has anybody ever told you you’re a remarkably cynical person?”“I like to think of it as learning from experience."

"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."

"Sometimes I think books are the only friends worth having."

"The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former."

"motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."

"I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking th..."