As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever… — George Eliot 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
I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision. — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
