Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of. — Samuel Butler 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
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
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
How did [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, 'My top priority for… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
“I once had a published written debate with a religious apologist who, after I had argued the standard line that the idea… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
I don't really bill myself as an atheist, even though there is a lot of atheism in naturalism. I would rather bill… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image