“the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!” WorldMindHumansReasonLyingEvilDarkVirtueIgnoranceRootsBlindMiseryErrorsGuidesHuman MindTremblingFelicityBaneHuman HappinessHuman ReasonPoisoners Author:Frances Wright
“The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.” MindHas BeensHardDifficultPrinciplesPracticeHabitPrejudiceErrorsFixedSimplest Author:Frances Wright
“An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.” MayMoralOpinionVirtueCrimeErrorsObligationContradictionOffenseAbsurdityMistakenMoral Obligation Book:A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum Source: A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum
“Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.” FactsImaginationAtheismErrorsPositive Atheism Book:Course of popular lectures Source: Course of popular lectures
