The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible. — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The age of reason may have had its golden age, but the age of emotion endures forever.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy… — Marie Clair Copy Share Image
“What if you reached the Age of Reason, only to find there was no reprieve, Would you be a Man for All… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him not to publish it, saying, ''The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I would give worlds, if I had them, that the Age of Reason had never been published. Oh, god, save me; for… — 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
...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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf… — Thomas A. Edison 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 study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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