Quotes About Truth

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

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.

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.

But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it , and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! it is quite another thing, it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.

I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.

Arguing with one who will not accept facts is like administering medicine to the dead.

I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I leave the evidence I have produced in proof of it to be refuted, if any one can do it; and I leave the ideas that are suggested in the conclusion of the work to rest on the mind of the reader; certain as I am that when opinions are free, either in matters of govemment or religion, truth will finally and powerfully prevail.

if every one is left to judge of his own religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is wrong; but if they are to judge of each other's religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is right; and therefore all the world is right, or all the world is wrong.

But 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.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

I believe in the same manner at this moment; and I moreover believe, that any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.

A government or an administration, who means and acts honestly, has nothing to fear, and consequently has nothing to conceal;

everything in this strange system is the reverse of what it pretends to be. It is the reverse of truth, and I become so tired of examining into its inconsistencies and absurdities, that I hasten to the conclusion of it, in order to proceed to something better.

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time; it is, therefore, at least millions to one, that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child,cannot be true.

All this is nothing better than the jargon of a conjuror, who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Priests and conjurors are of the same trade .

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason.

It is not because the right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.

It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.