Quotes
Quotes about Man
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.
All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
