"Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles."
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"Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery."
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"Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him."
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"Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed."
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"It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word."
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"Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree."
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"I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone."
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"Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory."
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"If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature."
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"To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym."
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"The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable."
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"Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more."
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"Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and I'm wrong, and there's nothing after, I will have had a better life than you, because I do believe there was something. And I couldn't argue with that, even though I wanted to."
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"There shall be no slavery of the mind."
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"Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it."
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"Unbelief is the greatest of sins."
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"I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less."
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"I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out."
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"There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God."
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"Who knows most, doubts most."
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