Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The United States is not a Christian nation. It is a great nation with Christians, among others, in it. But our greatness… — Lowell P. Weicker, Jr Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
And priests dare babble of a God of peace, Even whilst their hands are red with guiltless blood, Murdering the while, uprooting… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
