In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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 United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics,… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Taxpayer is a person who pays for the maintenance of the state, so the phrase obligations of the citizen to the state… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Religion waited for man to evolve. It waited an eternity like a desolate lover awaiting its unborn soulmate. When man was able… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For… — E. T. Whittaker Copy Share Image
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for… — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Copy Share Image