Positive atheism Quotes · Page 6

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

— Thomas Hobbes

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

— Lucretius

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

— Sidney Hook

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

— Ivan Turgenev

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

— Philip James Bailey

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

— John Dryden

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

— Elbert Hubbard

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

— Israel Zangwill

Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.

— William Kingdon Clifford

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason,…

— Indira Gandhi

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

— Ouida

I finally accepted Jesus. not as my personal savior, but as a man I intend to borrow money from.

— George Carlin

I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well.

— George Carlin

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and…

— Northrop Frye

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do…

— Victor J. Stenger

Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed…

— Ed Buckner

The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,…

— Richard Dawkins

Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious…

— Jack Balkin

Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates…

— Sam Harris

We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are…

— Denis Diderot

Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe,…

— James Bryce

The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger…

— James Madison

All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority…

— Susan Blackmore

A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the…

— Charles Bradlaugh

The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and…

— Anne Royall

I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

— Thomas Carlyle

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

— Brooks Atkinson

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

— Jeremy Bentham

The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.

— Robert Browning

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

— Omar Khayyam

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

— Quentin Crisp

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

— Voltaire

The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

— Jerry Falwell