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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.
To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.
If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.
For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?
Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.
But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.
Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.
You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
If there were a god, there would be no need for religion. If there were not a god, there would be no need for religion.
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.
Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.
I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.
I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?
Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.
The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.