By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature o…

- Anthony Collins

We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.

- Anthony Collins

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

- Anthony Collins

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

- Anthony Collins

Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other vir…

- Anthony Collins

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

- Anthony Collins

Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasonin…

- Anthony Collins