Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author.… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He… — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so… — John Locke Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
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