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- Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the…
- It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have…
- If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost..
- Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.
- There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds…
- To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is…
- The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men;…
- According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two…
- Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not…
- Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to…
- There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
- Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five percent of the…
- Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;…
- I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth,…
- Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To…
- Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead.…
- Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
- An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that…
- Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with…
- It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience…
- Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
- Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
- Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by…
- Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
- Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
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