“I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.” Quote by Denis Diderot
“Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.” WayShouldLightNightOrderMy FriendsBlowStrangerPositive AtheismGuidesForestsWanderCandleTheologianGuide Me Author:Denis Diderot
“To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.” DoeSpeakKnowingTheoryVainDespisePretension Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
“Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.” MindFirstsHomeSeemsMotivationalMemoriesFirst TimeComing HomeRecallsOur Memories Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
“One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.” ShouldPerfectionPursue Author:Nicolas Malebranche
“Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.” SoulNaturalPrayerAttentionAttentiveness Author:Nicolas Malebranche
“How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.” ThinkingMenMindHumansHas BeensStoriesActionProgressIgnoranceTaughtDependsMercyStupidityInvisiblePriestsHuman MindPrimitiveReservedPhantomsReveriePerpetuatingIgnorance And Fear Author:Baron d'Holbach
“I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.” ThinkingWantBeautifulKnownWho You AreWomen WantBeing Beautiful Author:Jamie Lee Curtis
“Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?” MenGivingMindIdeasQualityAtheismCapacityPositive AtheismTheologyAgentsFacultyPreciseContradictoryMarvellousIneffableBoonConceiving Author:Baron d'Holbach
“Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.” ReligiousAtheismPositive AtheismToleranceAntidoteFanaticismFreedom Of Thought Author:Baron d'Holbach