God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
“Atheists are spiritual slackers, right? We are the stoners of the cosmos. We think we’re all over-intelligent, free-thinking, free-spirited, uber-cool, hippy-dippy, science-minded,… — T.K. Decker Copy Share Image
Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know. — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or has no experience of life — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
“If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions,… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Accurate presentation of thoughts through the correct expressions of words - is an art accumulated for years. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber]. — Stanley Kauffmann Copy Share Image
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy. — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Atheism is like the highest level of white privilege. It's like having a black belt in white privilege. — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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