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logical-reasoning pieces offensive
Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive. Stendhal
logical-reasoning religion atheism
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct. Friedrich Nietzsche
logical-reasoning submission understood
God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission. Leo Tolstoy
religion crime thousand
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. Charles Caleb Colton
religion whole department
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
religion ordinary deities
Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity. Edward Gibbon
religion atheism might
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
religion said wells
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. Kurt Vonnegut
religion baths doe
They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good. Billy Sunday
religion earth return
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return. Bertrand Russell
religion battle faces
No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
religion causes world
If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God...
atheism three wealth
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
atheism divine sovereignty
Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism. Charles Spurgeon
atheism today socialism
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. August Bebel
atheism foxholes chaplains
There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
atheism movement goes-on
The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
atheism affirmation made
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Charles Bradlaugh
atheism public-opinion court
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.
atheism liberty chiefs
Liberty's chief foe is theology.
atheism doe without-god
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.