Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Lewis

It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right

Richard K. Morgan

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Richard Dawkins

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

Richard Dawkins

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Vladimir Lenin

Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!

Virginia Woolf

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Roger Ebert

Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution , intelligent design, God , and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs , although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist , and agnostic , or at the very least a secular humanist which I am.

Roger Ebert

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer.

Virgil

We can't all do everything.

Virgil

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Virgil

Time passes irrevocably.

Virgil

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Vladimir Lenin

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

Saint Augustine

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Saint Augustine

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Saint Augustine

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

William Howard Taft

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

Voltaire

What can I hope when all is right?

Walter F. Mondale

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

John Adams

The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

Os Guinness

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

Orlando Bloom

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Omar Khayyam

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

Emile Zola

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

Emile M. Cioran

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.