He who does not want does not act.
From Robert Green Ingersoll
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree.
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.
There are so many societies, so many churches, so many -isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career.
As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.
If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.
Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.
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