Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“One of Gunter’s fears was that the Bible was a ‘policy’, a deliberately manipulative hoax. This venerable theme, revived by Machiavelli, now… — Alec Ryrie Copy Share Image
There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“ He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an… — Walter J. Moore Copy Share Image
As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God. — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
