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“Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.”

Book:Half-Hours with the Freethinkers

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Half-Hours with the Freethinkers

This book is a compilation of concise, engaging essays that delve into conversations with notable freethinkers, exploring their ideas and perspectives on a range of topics. more

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Anthony Collins

Anthony Collins is an accomplished American football player born on November 2, 1985. He is renowned in the sport for his exceptional skills and leadership on the offensive line. more

“Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.”

Men Littles Self Atheism Conditions Effects Capable Consequence Foundation Bottom Deny Positive Atheism Reasoning Evident Convincing

Author:Anthony Collins

“Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.”

Differences Church Atheism England Positive Atheism Rome Infallible Church Of England

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."”

World Should Seems Given Atheism Europe Positive Atheism Scripture Passages Decree Augustus Augustus Caesar

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.”

Mean Dies Atheism Fool Prove Positive Atheism Martyr Knaves