The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“The remnant of the human species must understand that faith was the narcotic that fueled the insanity of religion. Conclusion: Invisible love… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty… — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
“I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force,… — Quentin Crisp 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
Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“Atheism is the philosophical equivalent of a fish denying the existence of land because he lacks the means to experience it.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
“There is no god, and that's the simple truth. If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant? —I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I make little distinction betwee those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
