Thomas Paine Quotes
Thomas Paine Quotes
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
1779 Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
3925 It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
4256 The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
4998 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.
1827 Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
2498 One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
3595 I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
1882 Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.
2282 All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
4764 Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
3873 My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
4569 Yalan söylemek kolaydır ama devam ettirmek zordur.
4086 Tüm kâinatı düzenleyen ve yöneten ilkeler gibi her bilimin de sabit ve değiştirilemez ilkeleri vardır. İnsan bu ilkeleri yapamaz ancak onları keşfedebilir.
2183 Peygamberlik profesyonel bir yalancılıktır. Neredeyse diğer tüm vakalarda basit bir varsayımın bile insanların saflığı sayesinde bir yalana dönüştüğünü ve bu yalanın da sonunda gerçek olarak anlatıldığını görmek zor değildir.
4370 Her türlü yanlışa karşı en amansız silah Akıl'dır.
1223 Mutluluktan mahrum ettiğimiz bir topluluktan mutluluk beklemek imkansızdır.
3297 İnsan, Tanrı'yı akıl yürütme yoluyla keşfedebilir.
2188 Fakat mutluluk için insanın zihinsel olarak kendine sadakat göstermesi gereklidir. İmansızlık sadece inanç veya inançsızlıktan ibaret değildir; inanmadığı şeye inanmış gibi görünmeyi de kapsar.
3470 Tek Tanrı'ya inanırım, başka bir şeye değil; bu yaşamdan sonra da mutluluk olmasını umut ederim.
3871 Gerçek din bilimsel bilgimizin kaynağıdır; bu bilgiden de tüm sanatlar türemiştir.
1779 Benjamin Franklin'i bilenler zihninin daima genç, karakterinin de daima dingin olduğunu hatırlayacaktır; asla yaşlanmayan bilim, daima onun sevgilisi olmuştur. Hiçbir zaman amaçsız kalmamıştır; amaçsız kalırsak, hastanede ölümü bekleyen bir sakattan farkımız kalmaz.
3220 Tanrı'nın ne olduğunu bilmek istiyor muyuz? Bunu herhangi bir insanın yazabileceği yazılı kitaplarda arama, ama Yaratılış'ın imzasında ara.
2343 Hıristiyan inancının destekçileri ya da taraftarları inanmasa ya da kabul etmese de cehalet dönemi Hıristiyanlık sistemiyle başlamıştır
3582 Hıristiyan kilisesi adı verilen kuramın pagan mitolojisinin kuyruğuna takılıp yeşerdiğini gözlemlemek ilgi çekicidir.
1139 Uydurma olmayan ve içinde özgün ilahiliğin tüm kanıtlarını barındıran tek din saf ve basit deizmdir
2756 In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.
3597 Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.
3437 And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.
2371 That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
4681 We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
2433 Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
1017 What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
2746 What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants say, It is a market where every man has his price, and where corruption is common traffic, at the expense of a deluded people? No wonder, then, that the French Revolution is traduced.
2156 Wer seine eigene Freiheit sichern will, muss selbst seinen Feind vor Unterdrückung schützen.
4630 An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
3127 The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and it yet remains to reason and philosophy to abolish the amphibious fraud.
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