All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“The remnant of the human species must understand that faith was the narcotic that fueled the insanity of religion. Conclusion: Invisible love… — C.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“No text, being human creation, is free from flaws – it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to… — Morris Sullivan Copy Share Image
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the… — Alexander Meiklejohn Copy Share Image
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