That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false..

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a p….

The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal tow….

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment..

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore..

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher..

The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small com….

Fundamentalists of different religions have more in common with each other than they do with the moderates of their own religions..

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorit….

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves t….

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding..

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith..

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a d….

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution..

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and powe….

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many thing….

And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father..

The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the e….

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality..

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal..