“The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.' — William Blake Copy Share Image
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Early America does not deserve to be considered uniquely, distinctly or even predominantly Christian... There is no lost Golden Age to which… — Mark Noll Copy Share Image
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and… — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“He was an atheist and it had been years since he read a book, despite the fact that he had amassed a… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
“Let us be honest. Did all the priests of Rome increase the mental wealth of man as much as Bruno? Did all… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The decision for complete religious freedom and for separation of church and state in the eyes of the rest of the world… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
