Chase after the truth like all hell.
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.
There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?
You can only be free if I am free.
Different strokes for different folks.
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
To think is to differ.
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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