Therefore Quotes
4218 quotes by 2350 authors
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But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families…
— Benjamin Franklin
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We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely…
— Adolf Hitler
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If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you…
— Dan Barker
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Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained…
— Robert Owen
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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and…
— Bertrand Russell
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The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its…
— John Shelby Spong
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Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they…
— Richard Sibbes
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Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we…
— William J. Clinton
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"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel…
— Douglas Adams
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde.…
— Francis Bacon
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There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population…
— Bertrand Russell
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The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner…
— David Hume
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.
— Bertrand Russell
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Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he…
— Paul Gauguin
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True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change,…
— Dalai Lama
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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our…
— Dalai Lama
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