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Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.
Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the read more
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in read more
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't read more
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would read more
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
