Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

=Whither Honesty May Lead.=--Someone once had the bad habit of expressing himself upon occasion, and with perfect honesty, on the subject of the motives of his conduct, which we...

=Classification of Enjoyments and Ethic.=--The once accepted comparative classification of enjoyments, according to which an inferior, higher, highest egoism may crave one or an...

At any rate, light fancy or heavy heartedness of any degree must be better than a romantic retrogression and desertion of one's flag, an approach to Christianity in any form: fo...

=Pleasure and Social Instinct.=--Through his relations with other men, man derives a new species of delight in those pleasurable emotions which his own personality affords him;...

=The Illogical is Necessary.=--Among the things which can bring a thinker to distraction is the knowledge that the illogical is necessary to mankind and that from the illogical...

=Appreciation of Simple Truths.=--It is the characteristic of an advanced civilization to set a higher value upon little, simple truths, ascertained by scientific method, than u...

=Metaphysical Explanation.=--Man, when he is young, prizes metaphysical explanations, because they make him see matters of the highest import in things he found disagreeable or...

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=Survival of Religious Training in the Disposition.=--The Catholic Church, and before it all ancient education, controlled the whole domain of means through which man was put in...

In all pessimistic religions the act of procreation is looked upon as evil in itself. This is far from being the general human opinion. It is not even the opinion of all pessimi...