The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live? — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well… — William Chillingworth Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth;… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.) — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
