Quotes from Anthony Collins

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.