![It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears to me freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follow[s] from the advance of science.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-appears-to-me-whether-rightly-or-wrongly-that-direct-arguments-against-chris.jpg)
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atheist criterion success
It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right Robert Lewis
atheist became hated seemed time
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick. Julia Sweeney
atheist drama struggle
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama. Richard P. Feynman
atheist philosophy atheism
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. Richard K. Morgan
atheist understanding religion
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it. Richard Dawkins
atheist powerful islands
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?
atheist atheism bother
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
atheist mean knowing
Let's drop the whole 'atheist evangelism' thing and call out bullshit questions like 'what does atheism have to offer?' for just what they are: Bullshit. I mean, what does knowing that the Earth goes around the Sun have to offer? Who cares? It just is. Rebecca Watson
atheist years stories
Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story. Rob Bell
mental showing wants
He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes. Eric Steinbach
men
'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary. Grant Heslov
mention
He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy. Chris Phillips
mentally players tough
He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen. Malik Rose
mental second seems toughness
He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.
men giving perfect
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life. Plato
mentally physically prepared
We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .
mentally tougher
We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.
mentioned teacher until year
I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.
illumination phones sublime
I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime. Werner Herzog
illumination drunk support
Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination Robert Green Ingersoll
illumination joy desire
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love. Rabindranath Tagore
illumination solitude departure
The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won. Joseph Campbell
illumination light shadow
Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
illumination afternoon ceremony
This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power. Jimmy Carter
illumination messages insects
In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get. Heather O'Neill
illumination drunk support
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination. Andrew Lang
illumination space tree
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living. Anais Nin