When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if… — Gary Sloan Copy Share Image
Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have… — Isaac Copy Share Image
They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
“Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most… — Matthew Bellamy Copy Share Image
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .… — John Adams Copy Share Image
These bible people remind me of another calamity similar to this missionary scheme, when our people, or any christian power would go… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
“Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way: What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and… — John W. Loftus Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“Boom!” The thunder of a massive explosion rolled across the settlement. Maria’s sobbing came from the bedroom. Irina ran to her daughter.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his… — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Copy Share Image
As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years… — Dean Edell Copy Share Image
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is yet another reason why I cannot, nor wish to, believe in God: the fairy tale about him is not really… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less… — Tom Shroder Copy Share Image
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it -… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
“It is more practical to make people transform their mindset about religion and religiousness and walk in the path of creed-less religious… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“[ When asked by a student if he believes in any gods ] Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged… — Edgar Schein Copy Share Image
They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“If Heaven actually exists, I don't need anyone to be my real estate broker. After all, what is religion but an attempt… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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