What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.