[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them.” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. — Plato Copy Share Image
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Heaven is supposed to be a perfect place. Yet, it experienced a war (Revelation 12:7). How can there be a war in… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
“It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking. — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“The human species – mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of exploded suns - does have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for… — Alvin Plantinga Copy Share Image
Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now? — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God… — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image