It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written.… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other… — Arno Allan Penzias Copy Share Image
New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“that always leads to disappointment. False gods never give us what they promise. We have already looked at David Foster Wallace’s powerful… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god.… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world.… — Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabre Copy Share Image
We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“A smart person speaks out the truth. A wise person doesn't care about speaking it out, as much as he or she… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What has been said of [God] is either unintelligible or perfectly contradictory; and for this reason must appear impossible to every man… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Every time a young girl gets raped, it's proof that there is no God. What kind of a God would just twiddle… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend… — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My atheism doesn't define my day-to-day life at all. But I realize - and maybe it is because, unlike people who sort… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
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