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THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.