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In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
Atheism is like the highest level of white privilege. It's like having a black belt in white privilege.
Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?
What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.
I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.
If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.
The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.
I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.
What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.
Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.