I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
“Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.” — Emil A. Zafirov Copy Share Image
Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“All those pathetic lonely people fooling one another into their clumsy games of afterlife and cosmic relevance just to avoid noticing the… — Edgar Cantero Copy Share Image
There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those.… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party,… — Lloyd Billingsley Copy Share Image
Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair 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 is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
An atheist is merely someone who doesn't believe in god/s. Atheism matters to me because I see what religion does to people,… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Jesus was crucified for doing nothing And God is worshiped for even less.” — Porcupine Tree Copy Share Image