Happy Birthday Thomas Paine! (January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809)
You helped shape nations, including our own, and your writings have inspired us for over 200 years.
Today we honor you!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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Great Quotes
“God exists, and there it lies.”
-- Thomas Paine
"The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles."
-- John Adams
“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
-- Stendhal
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."
-- Gene Roddenberry
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
-- Bertrand Russell
"There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough."
-- William James
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."
-- Voltaire
"God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
-- Dan Barker
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
-- Thomas Paine
"The only thing that makes your particular faith absolutely true, is your absolute faith. It is your faith that matters to you, not truth. And maybe a billion others believe similarly too, but if a billion people believe a lie, it is still a lie. That's what Christians would say of a billion Muslims; that's what Muslims would say of a billion Christians; and that's what I say of two billion with blind faith."
-- One Deist Φ
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
-- Seneca
"Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error."
-- Robert Owen
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Deism is good sense not yet instructed by revelation, and other religions are good sense perverted by superstition. All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God."
-- Voltaire
"Accept nothing on my authority. Think, and be a lamp unto thyself"
-- Buddha
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
-- Dr. Steven Weinberg
"I am utterly convinced that the sum total of all the religions of the world amount to no more then the capacity of the imagination of man - our brilliant ability to create them, and our staggering ability to believe them."
-- One Deist Φ
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..."
-- Thomas Jefferson
(Declaration of Independence)
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
-- Galileo Galilei
"The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice."
-- Clarence Darrow
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire
"Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word of God was given by God to Moses face to face; the Christians say, that their Word of God came by divine inspiration; and the Turks say, that their Word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from heaven. Each of those churches accuses the other of unbelief; and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all."
-- Thomas Paine
-- Thomas Paine
"The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles."
-- John Adams
“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
-- Stendhal
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes."
-- Gene Roddenberry
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
-- Bertrand Russell
"There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough."
-- William James
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."
-- Voltaire
"God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
-- Dan Barker
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
-- Thomas Paine
"The only thing that makes your particular faith absolutely true, is your absolute faith. It is your faith that matters to you, not truth. And maybe a billion others believe similarly too, but if a billion people believe a lie, it is still a lie. That's what Christians would say of a billion Muslims; that's what Muslims would say of a billion Christians; and that's what I say of two billion with blind faith."
-- One Deist Φ
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
-- Seneca
"Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error."
-- Robert Owen
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Deism is good sense not yet instructed by revelation, and other religions are good sense perverted by superstition. All sects differ, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God."
-- Voltaire
"Accept nothing on my authority. Think, and be a lamp unto thyself"
-- Buddha
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
-- Dr. Steven Weinberg
"I am utterly convinced that the sum total of all the religions of the world amount to no more then the capacity of the imagination of man - our brilliant ability to create them, and our staggering ability to believe them."
-- One Deist Φ
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..."
-- Thomas Jefferson
(Declaration of Independence)
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
-- Galileo Galilei
"The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice."
-- Clarence Darrow
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire
"Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word of God was given by God to Moses face to face; the Christians say, that their Word of God came by divine inspiration; and the Turks say, that their Word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from heaven. Each of those churches accuses the other of unbelief; and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all."
-- Thomas Paine
1 comment:
Thomas Paine was an amazing man. And what a life he led. The recent book by Craig Nelson on Paine excellently shows the great, inspired work he did for enlightenment.
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