A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines. — Al Smith Copy Share Image
I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves,… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones. — Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy Copy Share Image
I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon… — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge Copy Share Image
If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. — Max Born Copy Share Image
