It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature. — Richard A. Proctor Copy Share Image
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
The board transported its jurisdiction to a never-never land where a Dorothy of the new millennium might exclaim: "They still call it… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
"Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since… — Jim Herrick Copy Share Image
But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan "Adoption, not abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I think evolution should be taught as an accepted principle. I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It wouldn't matter if every single President since Washington had been a Bible-toting, evangelical Christian. They weren't, of course, but even if… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy. — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself. — John Adams Copy Share Image
'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody. — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair. — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical… — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
