"I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me."
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"So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized."
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"About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as far as possible, to change something in the other, but also to let me be changed by him. At any event, I had no resistance, I put no resistance to it. I already began as a young man. I felt I have not the right to want to change another if I am not open to be changed by him as far as it is legitimate."
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"Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor."
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"I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race."
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"In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived."
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"As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief."
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"If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building."
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"A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth."
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"Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner."
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"Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead."
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"A creed is an ossified metaphor."
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"Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power."
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"Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night"
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"Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty."
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"What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger."
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"Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another."
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"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible."
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"It is like confessing to a murder."
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"Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste."
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