There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and… — Kersey Graves Copy Share Image
For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can… — Richard Leakey 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
It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
