If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think. — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“On the revelation that there are no gods or afterlife:- "I do not 'like' the truth any more than you Avil, or… — Martyn Stanley Copy Share Image
Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with… — Henry F. Schaefer, III Copy Share Image
“Last-Minute Message For a Time Capsule I have to tell you this, whoever you are: that on one summer morning here, the… — Philip Appleman Copy Share Image
There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
I believe in God... just in case. It's like there's some list somewhere and you don't want to be on it. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I could not believe that anyone who has read this book would be so foolish as to proclaim that the Bible in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
