Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vanessa Paradis

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

Vanna Bonta

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Soren Kierkegaard

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

Marcus Aurelius

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

Raymond Aron

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

Thomas Carlyle

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not make gods in your own images.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

There are parodies of non-existent things.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.

Sigmund Freud

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

Steven Pinker

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

Steven Weinberg

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!

Robert Browning

'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.

Richard Mentor Johnson

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

Josiah Warren

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

Joss Whedon

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

Lenny Bruce

Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

Lenny Bruce

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.

Stephen Jay Gould

... a fortuitous cosmic afterthought.

Stephen Jay Gould

... a local, indigenous, American bizarre-ity.

Richard Dawkins

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

Richard Dawkins

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

Richard Dawkins

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

Pierre Bayle

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.

Rene Descartes

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.