Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The world allured me & in an unguarded moment I listened to her siren voice. From that moment I seemed to lose… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image