If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image. — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with… — Voltaire 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
Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing? — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity. — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The public schools are supported entirely, in most communities, by public funds-funds exacted not only from parents, nor alone from those who… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together. — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them… — John Adams Copy Share Image
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity… — John Courtney Murray Copy Share Image
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
