“Does trying to understand the universe at all betray a lack of humility ? I believe it is true that humility is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Egocentrism is the problem, then, not Egos. Egocentric people are agents for themselves only (and perhaps also for their immediate families), without… — Bill Plotkin Copy Share Image
“It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has… — Namsoon Kang Copy Share Image
“The more doors you open to the mysteries, or sacred knowledge, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“***Not Religious October 31, 2017 I am an ordained Lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan… — Doug "Ten" Rose Copy Share Image
“The opportunity to tell our story unhindered, uninterrupted is rare. Most of the time people are so involved in their own concerns… — Jeannette A. Bakke Copy Share Image
“If I know not now what and how I shall be; if there is an essential, absolute difference between my future and… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Stand Up If You Believe You Are A Warrior, Because Warriors Don't Lose To Knees And Defeat. Warriors Stand Again And Again,… — Harsh Ranga Neo Copy Share Image
“The [character-]armored, mechanistically rigid person thinks mechanistically, produces mechanistic tools, and forms a mechanistic conception of nature. The armored person who feels… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Each and every member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears a personal responsibility to learn and live the… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“So you make this deal with the gods. You do these dances and they'll send rain and good crops and the whole… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“On the black earth on which the ice plants bloomed, hundreds of black stink bugs crawled. And many of them stuck their… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Here is another weird example of the privileging of religion. On 21 February 2006 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in accordance… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Miller believes, like many theists, that religion brings us beyond the bounds of materialism. (Ironically he insists on a material explanation [evolution]… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“As regards the prohibition on the utterance of the fairy name by mortals, either that of the species as a whole, or… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
“just as a cutting from the vine planted in the ground fructifies in its season, or as a corn of wheat falling… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“in some old Teutonic and Scandinavian religions and mythologies there is an ideal of the “fated warrior.” This is the champion who… — Wesley Hill Copy Share Image
“Davie's hostility to sectarianism, and to religious 'fanaticism', was perhaps part of his appeal. He acknowledged the legacy of Calvinism in his… — Robert D. Anderson Copy Share Image
“A smart person, one who perhaps had her mind filled with religious ideas as a child but who recognizes that genuine mysteries… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“In other words, that the discussion about what is good, what is beautiful, what is noble, what is pure, and what is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“- “Do you know the difference between us and them.... We are awake. We sense the truth: that something is deeply wrong… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“Immortal existence.. Sometimes Living is not such an easy task.. Being here or there.. The spirit is the same.. Only changes the… — Dave Zebian Copy Share Image
“Our situation is this: most of the people in this world believe that the Creator of the universe has written a book.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“We should get into the way of appearing lively in religion, more by being lively in the service of God and our… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“(She) says that she's finding it especially hard to take when these earnest ravaged folks at the lectern say they're `Here But… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Divine power . . . what mom would turn it down? Jesus, who is God, full of power and might has poured… — Bobbie Wolgemuth Copy Share Image
“I’ve had the best time! The spirit here is incredible. It’s competitive, to be sure, but everyone supports each other. I was… — Josie Litton Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The religious man will constantly look for the proof of Heaven and Hell; while the atheist man will constantly look to disprove… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“and burdens of mature life, when they became aware of their own weakness, they lost their peace, they let go of their… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image