"If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced."
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
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"Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument."
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"It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong."
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"The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd."
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""Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another."
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"It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word."
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"Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open."
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"The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
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"What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem."
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"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen."
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"A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line."
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"When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest."
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"Freedom is the only law which genius knows."
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"What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians."
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"The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion."
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"God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining."
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"As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches."
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"What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?"
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"All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society."
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