Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
Actually, I don't like Atheists very much - at least most of them ~ because they are not motivated to move into… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called… — Tom Quinn Copy Share Image
If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Dragons and Afterlife .. I don't see any difference between both of them, we didn't see neither the dragons nor afterlife, we… — Sherif Gaber Copy Share Image
“[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image