Freethinker X

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
   --Giacomo Casanova

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
--Ayn Rand

"I hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land."
-Frederick Douglass

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
-Frederick Douglass

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
 ﻿ --H.L. Mencken

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
--H.L. Mencken