![The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-whole-thing-religion-is-so-patently-infantile-so-foreign-to-reality-that.jpg)
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atheist king man
A sanctimonious man is one who under an atheist king would be atheist Jean Bruyere
atheist believe people
I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute respect, not only for people who worship in a different way, but just as much respect for those who do not believe in God and who are atheists. Al Gore
atheist constitution currency
We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives. Bob Dole
atheist mind atheism
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. Blaise Pascal
atheist believe religion
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? Aristophanes
atheist real fighting
Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic. Chuck Palahniuk
atheist views knowing
Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality. Steven Pinker
atheist laughing deities
The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended. Robert Burns
atheist atheism belief
To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge Ravi Zacharias
attitude dreams goals positive
The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitude and still have their goals and dreams in focus.
attitude great level puts respect
program. ''It puts us in the attitude of respect for our audience. I think it's important on every level to have a kind of attitude of unification in some way. . . . I don't really have that naturally. I'm not a great performer, so we have to do everything we can, do the exercises, to prepare. Sufjan Stevens
attitudes strength team
The strength of our team is our defense. Their attitudes have been wonderful.
attitude school thinking
I knew I could compete with most people in high school. It didn't quite give me an attitude, but it made me think I didn't have to try hard sometimes. Ashton Eaton
attitude evil world
None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them. Azar Nafisi
attitude men done
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. Ayn Rand
attitude succeed difficulty
For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you. Brian Tracy
attitude victim masters
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
attitude party thinking
Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing or changing the subject. No. My attitude is: "Tell me more. This person is showing me his soul. It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to talk. He will show his true self. Then he will be wonderfully alive." Brenda Ueland
reality fiction epiphany
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.
reality limits fairy-tale
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.
reality men thinking
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
reality thinking people
You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are. Brian Bosworth
reality hands order
Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist. Boyd Rice
reality people magic
We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard. Jamie Foxx
reality ideas broken
Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality. Jamie Drummond
reality men order
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. Carl Sandburg
reality self giving
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality. C. S. Lewis