Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to… — William Rainey Harper Copy Share Image
Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men. — William Blake Copy Share Image
If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We use up words like 'spiritual' so fast in this culture. Twenty years ago spiritual had a distinct meaning. But now there's… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors…… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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