Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.