Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth. One should always maintain an… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound… — Namkhai Norbu Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts… — Bertram Brockhouse Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
God has been faithful and just, as He always is. He's been my best friend. Allowed me to come to Him on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while -… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Men, I am not a religious man and I don't know your feelings in this matter, but I am going to ask… — Robert Lee Wolverton Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would… — Francis Grund Copy Share Image
Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I want to make people think, and I don't want to come across like I am egotistical or that I want to… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image