Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
life wisdom finding-the-one
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
love inspirational knowledge
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
sports sex fun
Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
giving human-nature humans
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.
fda political substance
The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.
courage thinking clear
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
games people needs
What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing
war military views
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
war believe opposites
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.
religious teaching certain
Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
religious rights natural
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
religious exercise government
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
religious men suffering
[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty.
religious men hypocrisy
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion.