“What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card… — Morris Sullivan Copy Share Image
Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their… — Alfred Goodwin Copy Share Image
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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