All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
There's a principle here and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Religion: A friend of a friend's brother's ex-girlfriend's dad's former classmate's boss's mother-in-law's co-worker's milkman's pen pal's, medicine man's babysitter's dog said...… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving.… — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God… — Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw Copy Share Image
I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Finding that no religion was based upon facts, but that all of them were in opposition to facts, and could not therefore… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution. — Robert Collyer Copy Share Image
Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed… — John E. Jones III Copy Share Image