Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
Over our history there are always those who want to take this wall of separation and remove a brick here or there… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider). — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together. — Pope Boniface VIII Copy Share Image
The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways… — Eugenie Scott Copy Share Image