It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As my object was not myself, I set out with the determination, and happily with the disposition, of not being moved by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. — Thomas Paine Copy Share
“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
