Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“As all men are touched by God’s love, so all are also touched by the desire for His intimacy. No one escapes… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.” — George Everett Macdonald Copy Share Image
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep… — James T. Shotwell Copy Share Image
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty.… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men. — William Blake Copy Share Image
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“He is an atheist anyone who does not believe in my god and the wrath of god is upon him; I am… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image