No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem. — Roy Wood Sellars Copy Share Image
Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity. — John E. Jones III Copy Share Image
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Children are born atheists. Then they are indoctrinated and abused by so-called 'God's representatives.' Innocents are scarred emotionally and psychologically by those… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech… A million voters with IQs below 60 have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that "revolution… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“I did so many bad things to your god; if he or she exists; would have been pregnant now.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The truth is already in front of us. Wise will believe but others are blinded by faith. — Malcolm Ribeiro Copy Share Image
Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image