“The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Maybe he just didn’t know how to ask nicely. No. Belle shook her head. She had read about this. The victims of… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced to it… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“Tom Paine wrote in The Age of Reason: Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“The things that were needed to keep the imagination free were “all written down in this age of reason.” It was time… — Christopher E. Young 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
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“There's such joy and fearless in that face, isn't there? It's like the look you see on a child's face before the… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
“ Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...… — Thomas A. Edison 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
“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
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of… — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
“The age of empire and the rise of the west were built on the capacity to inflict violence on a major scale.… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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