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“With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.”

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Book:The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835

Source: The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835

“Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.”

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Book:No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

Source: No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

“Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”

Source: Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy ...

“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as is widely believed, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures.”

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Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.”

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Author:Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

“We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.”

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Author:Walter Kaufmann

“...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.”

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Book:Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind

Source: Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking : with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind

“The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.”

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Author:David Hume