Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against read more

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so read more

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even read more

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected read more

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

My mind is my own church.

My mind is my own church.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.

In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.