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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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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are…
— Art Buchwald
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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of…
— Maya Angelou
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It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no…
— Stephen Charnock
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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
— Oswald Chambers
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does…
— George MacDonald
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
— William Cobbett
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At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The…
— Maria Montessori
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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