Belief is not a voluntary thing. A man believes or disbelieves in spite of himself. They tell us that to believe is the safe way; but I say, the safe way is to be honest.

Away, forever away with the creeds and books and forms and laws and religions that take from the soul liberty and reason. Down with the idea that thought is da…

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

All the forces of civilization are in favor of morality and temperance. Little can be accomplished by law, because law, for the most part, about such things, i…

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself…

...'The story the oversoul tells me fit's all the facts that I see. Your story, in which I'm endlessly deceived, can also explain all those facts. I have no wa…