Quotes about atheism
atheism slave reason
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it. Mark Twain
atheism boots matter
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. Mikhail Bakunin
atheism division pope
The Pope? How many divisions has he got? Joseph Stalin
atheism agents venture
I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well. Leonard Susskind
atheism absence reverse
You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse. Margaret Atwood
atheism done evidence-of-god
If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us. Barbara Ehrenreich
atheism advancement wells
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth. Pierre Bayle
atheism looks purpose
From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason. Marcus Aurelius
atheism taste language
Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence. John Kenneth Galbraith
atheism morality ethics
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. Lincoln Steffens
atheism causes agnosticism
And the cause of everything is that which we call God. Leo Tolstoy
atheism church harmony
The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony. Josiah Warren
atheism matter epiphany
If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. Joss Whedon
atheism warts shows
That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
atheism three christ
Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days. Lenny Bruce
atheism superstitions certain
Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.
atheism needs world
What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence. Thomas Aquinas
atheism coffins
Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin. Lee Strobel
atheism finance can-do
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. Joseph Wood Krutch
atheism facts can-do
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
atheism vengeance lord
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!' Julian Huxley
atheism enlightenment agendas
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. Paul Kurtz
atheism needs foundation
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
atheism may path
It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion. Paul Davies
atheism church matter
I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me. John F. Kennedy
atheism citizens crime
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.
atheism belief absence
... the absence of theistic belief. Joseph McCabe
atheism attendance devotion
Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality? James Madison
atheism mouths needs
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. Emma Goldman
atheism slavery burden
It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many. John Dewey
atheism morality function
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. Garrett Hardin
atheism causes illusion
Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause. Ludwig Feuerbach
atheism sun there-is-no-god
It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.