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  • Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

    "Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits". Book by André Gide, p. 174, 1952.
  • The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

    God   Christian   Army  
    "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".
  • I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

    Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930
  • A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

    Sympathy   God   Death  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books
  • A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

    Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)
  • I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

    Death   Mother   Atheist  
    Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930
  • Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.383, Penguin
  • All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

    Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.2
  • If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

    God   Religious   Atheist  
    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.40, St. Martin's Press
  • During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.

    Spiritual   Prayer   Mean  
    Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media
  • Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

    Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books
  • I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

    Funny   Witty   Powerful  
    Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925
  • The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

    River Out of Eden ch. 4 (1995)
  • Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

  • I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

    "Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1". Book by John F. Nash (p. 11), February 14, 2008.
  • Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

    Atheist   Prayer   Hands  
  • Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

    James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing
  • All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

  • God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

    Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.104, Del Rey
  • There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

    Faith   Believe   People  
    "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 14, 1954.
  • Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

    Atheist   Real   Believe  
    Valis ch. 5 (1981). Originally appeared in a 1978 lecture by Dick entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days." See Paktor 1
  • There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world.

    Art   Philosophy   Men  
  • Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

  • The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

  • An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?

    Life   Religion   Atheism  
    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ch. 7 (1974)
  • A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

    Funny   Faith   Witty  
    "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.
  • For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

  • I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

  • No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens the level of life and every aspiration. It makes our character less vigorous. The gospel is not simply a philosophy of religion or law of life, but it is an apocalypse, showing the heavens to our thought, and so bringing its spiritual benedictions to every heart and life.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 347), 1895.
  • RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

    Art   Philosophy   Lying  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics
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