I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy. — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It has been claimed by many that Freethought does away with churches, creeds, Christs and even a God. So it does to… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
