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"But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal."
"Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection."
"The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own."
"RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual."
"I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out."
"If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God."
"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."
"God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills."
"There is but one evil, ignorance."
"Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods."
"I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God."
"He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray"
"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own."
"When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript."
"I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension."
"There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't."
"Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society."
"God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed."