Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind.… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your… — Vincent McNabb Copy Share Image
The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image