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Thinking Quotes by Thomas Paine
- Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it…
- There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something…
- The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
- One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have…
- All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous…
- There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those…
- A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
- Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
- When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
- A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in…
- If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections,…
- Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such…
- Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.
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