Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
Reply #521 - October 18, 2010, 02:39 AM
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church."
[Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."
[Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]
"Priests and conjurors are of the same trade."
[Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall."
[Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]
"Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication-- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it can not be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to ME, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him."
[Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]