Atheism Quote by Critias Download Open image “It was man who first made men believe in gods.” — Critias ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Believe Believe in god Fear Firsts God Made Men Rage
Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Priests claimed the gods made men, but this was not so. Men made the gods. Firstly, by forming them in clay, by chipping them… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this… — Critias Copy Share Image
“Nothing is guaranteed, except that what is born will die, and that in life ruin cannot be avoided.” — Critias Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
