"The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it."
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"The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish."
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"The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient."
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"Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide."
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"The Truth never flaunted a sign."
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"It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power."
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"The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years."
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"He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know."
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"To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit."
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"At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets."
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"Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?"
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"The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods."
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"Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well."
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"One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality."
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"I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in."
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"Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God."
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"I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve."
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"If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary."
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"We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises."
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"... reason accepts no commandments."
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