It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and… — Jim Herrick Copy Share Image
I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines. — Al Smith Copy Share Image
And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept… — Victor J. Stenger 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
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools,… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Zagreus was the son of Zeus. He was slain by the Titans, buried at the foot of Mount Parnassus, and rose from… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image