The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual..

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it..

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it..

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism..

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient..

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis..

The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental..

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools..

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world w….

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?.

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare..

The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a….

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt..

Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or dis….

I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e., living without God,….

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope..

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others..

Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist..

You, my Brown Guard, will regard it as a matter of course that this German people should go only by the way which Providence ordained for it when it ….

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural t….