Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, print put forward a definition of intelligence that gave priority to the objective, rational use of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“I’m a European, Peter. If I had a mission – if I was ever aware of one beyond our business with the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The American experiment was based on the emergence in the second half of the eighteenth century of a fresh new possibility in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift. If… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“Comey had turned away from his upbringing and embraced various kinds of evangelism. He wrote his thesis on how the evangelist teacher… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
“Not least, the asylum idea reflected the long-term cultural shift from religion to scientific secularism. In traditional Christendom, it was the distinction… — Roy Porter Copy Share Image
“I have furnished myself with a Bible and Testament; and I can say also that I have found them to be much… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Coffeehouses were centers of self-education, literary and philosophical speculation, commercial innovation, and, in some cases, political fermentation. But above all they were… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
“Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It has happened, that all the answers that I have seen to the former part of 'The Age of Reason' have been… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
![“Women [in ancient Rome] were condemned to the perpetual tutelage of parents, husbands, or guardians; a sex created to please and obey was never supposed to have attained the age of reason and experience. Such, at least, was the stern and haughty spirit of the ancient law . . .” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b7f/edward-gibbon-710_age_women-in-ancient-rome-were-condemned-to_2414906.png)
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