The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I… — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
“I am a pilgrim of love, life and liberty, out to end conspiracy and superstition.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace… — Leilani Bishop Copy Share Image
And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers.… — George Seldes Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where people wait for the Media to tell them who they are, and what they should be… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
I think Liberals may tend to be more people oriented, whereas Conservatives are more task oriented. It makes Liberals look softheaded to… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“Naskar it! (Sonnet 2855-2857) At birth they tag you with a flag, a script to follow, a tribe to brag - tell… — Abhijit Naskar 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
“To be able to think freely isn't a crime, it's a gift. A real privilege; one not enjoyed by a vast majority… — Mamur Mustapha Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“You are not going to heaven if you do good, you are not going to hell if you do evil, you'll simply… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brain starts leaking - an empty attic is a primate's olympus.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox believer… — David Marshall Brooks Copy Share Image
I hate the whole Liberal mindset. It makes me nauseous and fearful for my child. I have nightmares about her being trampled… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image