From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation. — George Sarton Copy Share Image
“The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them.” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
God's nature is revealed most perfectly in the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the New Testament of… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“[ From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a… — Hector Avalos Copy Share Image
There comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for… — J. Anderson Thomson Jr Copy Share Image
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The most natural ideology is nature itself. The nature laws are unwritten, but always workable. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Once you've condoned faith in general, you've condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.” — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
![“[ From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex' ] Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses religions — even when they worship a goddess — as the inventions of men to perpetuate…” quote by Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/2a8/simone-de-beauvoir-407_atheism_from-a-new-york-times-biography-from-may_955735.jpg)
