He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas JeffersonRightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life.” But he continued “which would be your second choice ” His answer “France.
Thomas JeffersonWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas JeffersonTags: literacy-and-democracy
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing,
Thomas JeffersonA great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
Thomas Jefferson...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings
Thomas JeffersonTags: atheism ignorance forgiveness atheist materialism absurdity good-works contradictions materialist untruth
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas JeffersonAnd the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding...
{Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823}
Tags: reason united-states freedom-of-thought myth irreligion father virgin fable jupiter minerva supreme-being virgin-birth
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas JeffersonTags: ataraxy inner-peace
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