Atheism Quote by E.A. Bucchianeri

“Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need…

— Emil Cioran

“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth…

— Edward Clodd

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

— Christopher Marlowe

“Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human…

— Dan Brown

“Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan—it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth.”

— Graham Greene

“Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“You cannot imagine what wrath and sadness overcome your whole soul when a great idea, which you have long cherished as holy, is caught…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in…

— Francois Maspero

“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not a crime)…

— Thomas Paine

“The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Certainly,—and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,—the observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he would, perchance, have pitied this sick…

— Victor Hugo