The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God… — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism at least in the sense of this work… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Atheism is not synonymous with anti-theism and not all atheists are 'active.' There are many non-believers who aren’t activists, who don’t oppose… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however,… — Clifford Truesdell Copy Share Image
“Why do many believers insist on repeatedly pointing to the crimes of 20th century dictators who led officially atheistic societies as some… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
“I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical evidence that it is a… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
