Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
We are on the earth, and they tell us of heaven; we are human beings, and they tell us of angels and… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what?… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,… — Frances Wright Copy Share
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family. — Frances Wright Copy Share
... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest… — Frances Wright Copy Share
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. — Frances Wright Copy Share
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning. — Frances Wright Copy Share
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important… — Frances Wright Copy Share
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling… — Frances Wright Copy Share
You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems. — Frances Wright Copy Share
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good… — Frances Wright Copy Share
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. — Frances Wright Copy Share
... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as… — Frances Wright Copy Share
it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false… — Frances Wright Copy Share
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction. — Frances Wright Copy Share
The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective,… — Frances Wright Copy Share
He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man… — Frances Wright Copy Share
