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John Toland Quotes on Truth

John Toland was an Irish-born freethinker, political pamphleteer, and one of the most controversial English-language philosophers of the early Enlightenment. This page collects quotes attributed to John Toland on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to John Toland:

    “Whatever is contrary to reason can be no part of true religion.”

  • Attributed to John Toland:

    “All matter is essentially active.”

  • Attributed to John Toland:

    “Pantheism is the worship of the universe as the only divine.”

  • Attributed to John Toland:

    “A free press is the surest defence of a free people.”

  • Attributed to John Toland:

    “Mystery has too often been used to disguise the absence of meaning.”