I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if
they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if
they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all,
because they enslave the minds of men.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the
Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the
teachings of the New, he would be insane.
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The
place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be
happy is to make others so.
