98 Quotes About Freethought

Whether Jesus turning water into wine - whether Mecca moving around following the feet of Nanak - whether Krishna lifting a mountain on his finger - it's all fiction - which were written not to inform the public but to make them accept a certain figure as the authority of their lives.

Un tempo non era permesso a nessuno di pensare liberamente. Ora sarebbe permesso, ma nessuno ne è più capace. Ora la gente vuole pensare ciò che si suppone debba pensare. E questo lo considera libertà.

The tragedy of life is that, all know weakness, very few know strength - all know rigidity, very few know sanity - all know death, very few know life.

Often pastors as well as my fellow scientists ask me - are you a believer or non-believer - I smile and reply, all I care about is to abolish the barriers that people have raised among themselves. I work to create living Christs in every field of society to take care of every corner of the world.

Decisions of life must be made based on the needs of the living, not of the dead.

Brain balance is more important than bank balance.

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

Being the most insecure species on earth, humans have a tendency to seek for instruction manuals for even the fundamental experiences and realizations of life. And that's why so many con-artists, that is, the mystical fraudsters are able to keep cashing on their insecurity, by selling them diagrams and techniques to liberation. The number of gurus, yogis, swamis and psychics in a country increases exponentially with the fall of reason, and the fall of reason leads to the fall of civilization.

Holistic hysteria and healthy wholeness are two different things. The former belongs in the stone-age, the latter in a civilized society.