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Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
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Another meme of the religious meme complex is called faith. It means blind trust, in the absence of evidence, even in the teeth of evidence.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.
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"I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it’s not for me."
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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.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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Trust is good, but control is better.
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Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. . ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.
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I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
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Im a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.
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Doubt everything, Find your own light.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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"The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith."
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Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.
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