Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together. — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard… — James Russell Lowell 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
An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a… — Robert E Lane 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
The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I could not believe that anyone who has read this book would be so foolish as to proclaim that the Bible in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so… — John Locke Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another. — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
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