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“Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.”

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Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.”

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Book:The Arrogance of Power

Source: The Arrogance of Power

“One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.”

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Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'”

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Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.”

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Author:Robert Trivers

“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”

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Book:The essence of Christianity

Source: The essence of Christianity

“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.”

“Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in god. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed.”

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Book:Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage

Source: Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage

“There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.”

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Author:James Bryce