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"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason."
"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
"Man's life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a mooching mystic, but the life of a thinking being-not life by means of force or fraud, but life by means of achievement-not survival at any price, since there's only one price that pays for man's survival: reason."
"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason."
"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted."
"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"
"I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept."
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"Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."
"But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of adoration, it is man bringing to his maker the fruits of his heart; and though these fruits may differ from each other like the fruits of the earth, the grateful tribute of everyone is accepted."
"Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."
"O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, butthe tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa,have long expelled her.?Europe regards her like a stranger, and Englandhath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare intime an asylum for mankind."
"All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe."
"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
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