Atheism Quote by Jean Meslier Download Open image “... inventions and purely human institutions.” — Jean Meslier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Humans Innovation Institutions Invention Nature of man
“All human societies contain inventive people. It’s just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations. — Kenneth Frazier Copy Share Image
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all. — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest. — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
“How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity caused… — Jean Meslier 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
