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“Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and fagot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences.”

Religion Liberty Fire Conscience Opposites Assuming Selling Pope Indulgence Despotism Counterfeit Toleration Withholding Fagots

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?”

Mind States Religion Millions Conscious Assuming Carrie Righteous Bullets Martyr Circuits Hens Conscious Mind Executioners

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

People Life Inspirational God Religion Hate Turns Atheism Humility Assuming Atheist Insightful Fundamentalism Agnostic Atheistic Mind Your Own Business Religion Christian Hate Religion

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”

Inspirational Mind Matter Science Religion Force Behinds Existence Virtue Conscious Intelligent Assuming Atoms God Exists Mystery Of Nature

Author:Max Planck

“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”

Philosophy Problem Religion Dangerous Solutions Assuming Solve Doctrine

Book:The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God