There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father." — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life... — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me. — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment. — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“(From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser) At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family,… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must -… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Atheism is a conclusion reached by the most reasonable methods and one which is not asserted dogmatically but is explained in its… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“I never attempt to take away people’s God from them, because that God is associated with a lot of human sentiments in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Every argument for God and every attribute ascribed to Him rests on a false metaphysical premise. None can survive for a moment… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image