I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know. — James Randi Copy Share Image
He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
"Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since… — Jim Herrick Copy Share Image
But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it… — Carl Joachim Friedrich Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination,… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The plain message conveyed by the new administration is that George W Bush's America is a Christian nation, and that non-Christians are… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
No! Not for a second! I immediately began to think how this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed. — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused? — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor… — Henry Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
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