"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive."
"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone."
Ayn Rand
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear."
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."
"If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God."
"You say you are a Calvinist. I am not. I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know."
Thomas Jefferson |