A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

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

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

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Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

It seem like everybody dress tight now, And I just want my credit.

The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.