The hands that help are better far than lips that pray..

To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor ….

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result..

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd..

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free..

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself..

If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,w….

Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make ….

I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth, to the e….

And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It ….

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and….

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity..

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor.

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal..

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy..

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism..

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius..

I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons..

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth..

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people..