There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
