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All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.
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Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests.…
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It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing…
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What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man…
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Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have…
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The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience…
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How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?…
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Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can…
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Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they…
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel,…
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math,…
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I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason,…
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If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the…
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The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work…
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The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing,…
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The believer is sensible of his infirmities, for it is supposed that he is wrestling under them. He sees, he feels, that…
— Thomas Boston
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Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty…
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It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it…
— Baron d'Holbach
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Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It…
— Lucian Freud
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I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it…
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him…
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