Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Diderot

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Edward Hoagland

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Edward Gibbon

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

Edward Gibbon

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Elbert Hubbard

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion

Elbert Hubbard

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Elbert Hubbard

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy ...

Benjamin Franklin

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

Benjamin Franklin

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

Austin Farrer

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Billy Connolly

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

Brigham Young

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Aimee McPherson

Let's keep that our little secret, shall we.

Alexandre Vinet

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

Daron Malakian

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

Baruch Spinoza

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Art Hoppe

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

Ayn Rand

This god, this one word: I.

Ayn Rand

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Bertrand Russell

The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.

Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Bertrand Russell

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

Bertrand Russell

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

Benjamin Disraeli

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

Benjamin Disraeli

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

C. S. Lewis

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.