To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have… — Thomas Paine 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
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes. — Thomas Paine 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
Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is often said in the Bible that God spake unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses?… — 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 Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine 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 Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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