Atheism Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Inspirational life Lying Pleasure Standing Truth
No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign. — James Norwood Pratt Copy Share Image
Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon 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… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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
