Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henny Youngman

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

Cat Stevens

They have hijacked my religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

George Sand

No religion can be built on force.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

George Bernard Shaw

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

George Bernard Shaw

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

Galileo Galilei

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

Emily Saliers

The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine

C. S. Lewis

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

C. S. Lewis

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Carl Sagan

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Carl Sagan

Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Bernadette Devlin

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

John Eldredge

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

Ernst Mayr

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Frank Pavone

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

Francois Rabelais

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

Christopher Hitchens

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.

Christopher Hitchens

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Christopher Hitchens

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

Christopher Hitchens

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

Christopher Hitchens

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Christopher Fry

Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

Gertrude Stein

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Havelock Ellis

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.