Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Somebody needs to start a restaurant called, 'Chick-Fil-Atheist' that's only open on Sunday. — Anonymous 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
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations… — Richard Dawkins 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
An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures;… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“McGrath briefly notes Bertrand Russell's Why I am not a Christian, and J. J. C. Smart gets a single mention, as does… — Keith Parsons Copy Share Image
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
