It's not that I don't believe in a God. It's that I prefer to have my beliefs to offer more than a… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the oldest ideas we have: 'the idea that it… — Richard Dawkins 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
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different...… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less… — Tom Shroder Copy Share Image
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“There is yet another reason why I cannot, nor wish to, believe in God: the fairy tale about him is not really… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it -… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
“It is more practical to make people transform their mindset about religion and religiousness and walk in the path of creed-less religious… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“[ When asked by a student if he believes in any gods ] Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Activity proneness in the service of an ideology ... leads the individual into an irreversible series of commitments from which is forged… — Edgar Schein Copy Share Image
They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“If Heaven actually exists, I don't need anyone to be my real estate broker. After all, what is religion but an attempt… — Quentin R. Bufogle Copy Share Image
“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“To believe that there is no God takes infinitely more faith than to believe God exists, because all the evidence must be… — David Servant Copy Share Image
“I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince… — Anton LaVey Copy Share Image
To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges. I was… — Ten Bears Copy Share Image
Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades,… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and… — Theodore Schroeder Copy Share Image
It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Over our history there are always those who want to take this wall of separation and remove a brick here or there… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because… — Charles-Francois Dupuis Copy Share Image
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