"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."
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"Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist."
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"Scepticism is the first step towards truth."
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"Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing."
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"I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research."
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"People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds."
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"Religion is the metaphysics of the masses."
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"Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name"
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"Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . ."
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"Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out."
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"So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal."
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"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us."
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"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
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"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window."
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"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
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"I'm a born - again atheist."
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".... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One."
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"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."
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"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."
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"Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning."
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