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Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.
With soap, baptism is a good thing.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
All religion is slavery.
We rise by lifting others.
Death is only perfect rest.
Every library is an arsenal.
Nothing but truth is immortal.
A good deed is the best prayer.
Meekness is the mask of malice.
Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
Commerce is the great civilizer.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Liberty is the breath of progress.
Fear is religion, courage is science.
Intelligence is the only moral guide.
Hope is the consolation of the world.
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.
The triumph of justice is the only peace.
The way to be happy is to make others so.
The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
I am going to put the Bible out of business.
What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
If there is a God, there should be no slaves.
We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".
Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.
Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.
Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.
If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .
A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.
You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.
Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.
Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
