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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

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For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that...more

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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

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It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to...more

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I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe...more

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Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of ve...more

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When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that...more

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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly ...more

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I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, ...more

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A strange mystery it is that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth...more

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You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so l...more

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It is true that the modern Christian is less robust, but that is not thanks to Christianity; it is thanks to the generations of freethinkers, who from...more