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Thomas Paine Quotes
«Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditional or invented absurdities»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdities, anonymous, Book of, Book of Moses, fables, Genesis, Moses, stood, take away, The Author, The Strange, traditional, Word of God
«It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
calculate, chastity, commission, corrupted, mischief, professional, prostituted, subscribe, subscribed, subscribe to, subscribing, the commission
«The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Action,
Government,
Society
| Keywords:
abolished, association, common interest, formal, General Government, general interest, instant, produces, The Association
«The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.»
«I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
creed, Greek, Greek Church, Jewish, professed, professing, Protestant, Protestants, Protestant Church, roman, Roman Church, the Greek, Turkish
«Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.»
«The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
compared, farce, farces, testament, testaments, The New
«There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Reflection,
Thinking,
Thought
| Keywords:
accord, bolt, distinct
«It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Infidelity
| Keywords:
consist, disbelieving, infidelities, infidelity, professing
«The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Study,
Theology
| Keywords:
admits, Christian Churches, Christian theology, churches, data, demonstrate, No data, proceeds, theology