"Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power."
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"Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty."
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"Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with."
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"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking."
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"For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."
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"How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?"
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"Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion."
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"To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand."
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"This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians."
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"Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought."
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"The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force."
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"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity."
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"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
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"Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions."
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"..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory."
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"In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit."
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"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
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"God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal."
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"Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it."
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"He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray"
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