Quotes by Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believin — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be t — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions est — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vi — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian sy — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the languages themselves, — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it co — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian sy — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting v — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabit — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Though it is not a direct article of the christian system that this world that we inhabit is the whole of the habitable — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written t — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a morali — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impo — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason