Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.