“Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.” MenStatesCharacterFormIndividualNationsConditionsDependsCivilizationProveInstitutionsImprovementPersonal Improvement Book:Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance Source: Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance
“To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of atheism? That one does not mistake: that, to my mind, does not prove anything against atheism and much against religion. "The heart of a heartless world, said Marx, the soul of soulless conditions." It is misery that makes religion, and it is why this one is miserable. Who would prohibit opium to a dying man? And what are we, out of oblivion or entertainment, anything else but dying?” IfsMenWorldMindHeartChildrenDoeSaidSoulDiesSpeakParentMistakeAtheismConditionsDyingProvePraiseMiseryEntertainmentMiserableOblivionHeartlessConsoleOpiumSoullessAgainst Religion Author:Andre Comte-Sponville