People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together. — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Advance warning of Katrina's path was wrested from mute Nature by meteorological calculations and satellite imagery. God told no one of His… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. — C. S. Lewis 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
To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world,… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation… — Derek Barton Copy Share Image
Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
