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Love has no value in the absence of truth.
— C.J. Anderson
Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?
— Augustine Of Hippo
When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.
— Francesc Ferrer I Guardia
An atheist is as religious as a theist.
— Kedar Joshi
Theology is ignorance with wings.
— Sam Harris
There are no atheists in the foxhole.
— Ernie Pyle
The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Blindness to knowledge was his mother and despair of death his father. Darkness and fear gave birth to God. Awareness of truth will kill him.
— C.J. Anderson
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
— George Santayana
To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.
— Luther Burbank
The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.
— Herbert Spencer
Religion suits everyone's needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists
— Daya Kudari
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
Darwin is my copilot.
— T. Rafael Cimino
He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, 'he never denied God.' Neither did he affirm God.
— Robert V. Bruce
Do I believe? God only knows.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
— W. Somerset Maugham
No other single innovation had so much impact on history.
— Rodney Stark
I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.
— Peter Atkins
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[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.
— Carl Sagan
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
— Richard P. Feynman
Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?
— James Madison
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
— Dan Barker
To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.
— George Carlin
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.
— James G. Frazer
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
— William Winwood Reade
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
— H.L. Mencken
There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.
— Richard Dawkins
Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.
— Stephen Colbert
People say it is impossible to get out of stupidity; well, I was born religious and here I am an atheist.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy
— Austin O'Malley
Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Liberty's chief foe is theology.
— Charles Bradlaugh
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
— Martin Amis
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
— Norman Douglas
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
— Daniel Dennett
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.
— Harold Lasswell
What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
— Heraclitus
"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
God doesn't send atheists to Hell there's no room with all the Christians down there. — Quentin R. Bufogle
I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.
— Brian Eno
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?
— John William Draper
It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.
— Silius Italicus
The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.
— Mary Todd Lincoln
How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?
— M.F. Moonzajer
Religion is the last cultural barrier to gender equity.
— Karen L. Garst
Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
— Billy Graham
The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.
— John E. Jones III
Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.
— Christopher Marlowe
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
— Richard Dawkins
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.
— Rodney Stark
A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.
— Scott Dikkers
An error becomes an error when born as truth.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Christians are losers.
— Ted Turner
Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.
— Ludwig Boltzmann
Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian.
— James E. Crimmins
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
— Clarence Darrow
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
— Voltaire
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
When an atheist is born, a kitten kills a god.
— C.P. McClennan
Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.
— Penn Jillette
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.
— Isaac Newton
He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.
— Edgar Lee Masters
A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.
— Dion Fortune
Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.
— Johnny Hart