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Clarence Darrow was a prominent American lawyer known for his defense of controversial clients and his influential legal arguments. He was born on April 18, 1857, and passed away on March 13, 1938.

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“I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose.”

Life Belief Fantasy Atheism Future Mother Goose

Author:Clarence Darrow

“Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.”

Believe Belief Don't Believe Future Life

Author:Clarence Darrow

“If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.”

Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays

“I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.”

“In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.”

Men Reason Facts Religion Belief Support Atheism Produce Transformation Immortality Spite Humanist Yearning Belief In God Single Relationship

Author:Clarence Darrow

“The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.”

World Believe Past Belief Voice Raises Injustice Anarchy Rebel Hunches

Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

“The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth”

Facts Life Is Belief Future Evidence Future Life

Book:The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

About the Author

Born: April 18, 1857
Died: March 13, 1938
Known for: Lawyer
Quotes: 191

Books & Sources

The Story of My LifeRelated source material

Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the CourtroomRelated source material

Why I Am an Agnostic and Other EssaysRelated source material

Crime: Its Cause and TreatmentRelated source material

Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and SocietyRelated source material

A Persian pearl, and other essaysRelated source material

Clarence Darrow on the Death PenaltyRelated source material

Clarence Darrow: The Creation of an American MythRelated source material

FarmingtonRelated source material

In the Clutches of the Law: Clarence Darrow's LettersRelated source material

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