“The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“I want an avowed atheist in the White House. When time comes to push that button, I want whoever's making the decision… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose than to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“For Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impulse is simply an evolutionary mistake, a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is where faith is born—a seemingly abundant commodity certain… — Justin Villanueva Copy Share Image
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls… — Gora Copy Share Image
“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God. — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
