Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Born

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

Christopher Hitchens

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Christopher Hitchens

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.

Christopher Hitchens

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

Christopher Hitchens

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

Jerry Falwell

Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.

Jean Rostand

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Gore Vidal

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

Gore Vidal

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

Baruch Spinoza

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.

Steve Nash

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Tina Fey

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

Stefan Zweig

With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.

Soren Kierkegaard

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

Tom Robbins

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.

Brad Pitt

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

Ricky Gervais

Atheism is a belief system”, is like saying “not going skiing, is a hobby.

Thomas Hobbes

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not make gods in your own images.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

Robert Browning

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

Socrates

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.