A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for… — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Copy Share Image
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Zagreus was the son of Zeus. He was slain by the Titans, buried at the foot of Mount Parnassus, and rose from… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And… — Victor J. Stenger 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
The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is… — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness… No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I can't think of any decision where the entire Congress immediately rushes to condemn a decision by the court. It's getting to… — Stephen Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud And I swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
