Atheism Quote by Thomas Huxley

“People generally believe that which they wish to believe and disbelieve that which is unpleasant.”

— Rodney L. Petersen

“Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez faire, relativistic…

— Daniel Jones

“(In response to 'In the end moral and political truths have to proved on the body.[ ie put one's body on the line to…

— Pat Barker

“Belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. Belief is not freedom. Belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression. Consider the…

— Austin Osman, Spare

“We are constantly mistaking our subjective interpretations of the world as truth, and it is causing us immense suffering.”

— Mateo Tabatabai

I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

— Flannery O'Connor

“The other approach, probably more widely appealing in contemporary Western culture, is so to fix on the painful circumstances of life that one gives…

— R.W.L. Moberly

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

— Louis L'Amour

“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they…

— Marcel Proust

“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude…

— Thomas Merton

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

— Michel de Montaigne

“This false “faith” which is what we often live by and which we even come to confuse with our “religion” is subjected to inexorable…

— Thomas Merton