"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."

"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."

"Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad."

"Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle."

"He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that 'unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian."

"Or she may accept, as appearances would sometimes lead us to believe, not the male which is the most attractive to her, but the one which is the least distasteful."

"To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man"

"Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy."

"We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it."

"I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard."

"Even when she walks one would believe that she dances."

"Did he really believe God wrote stories that were open to one explanation only? A story that knew but one explanation could hardly be interesting and was certainly not worth the trouble of remembering."

"It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice."

"We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the forces that oppose us. But even more than that, we are true believers in the whole idea of justice. Justice is so much on our side, that that is going to see us through."

"We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces."

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."

"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."

"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"

"It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS."

"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe"

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."

"I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself."

"He is dead in this world who has no belief in another."

"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."