Author |
Quote |
Location |
Acton, John Emerich E.D. |
Power tends to corrupt and |
Meditation 579 |
Adams, Douglas |
Human beings, who are alomst unique in |
Meditation 547 |
Adams, Douglas |
I find the whole business of religion... |
Meditation 75 |
Adams, John |
Let the human mind loose |
Meditation 337 |
Adams, John |
The question before the human race is |
Meditation 130 |
Aeschylus |
It is not the oath that makes.. |
Meditation 401 |
Aiken, Howard |
Don't worry about people stealing |
Meditation 471 |
Alfonso the Wise |
If I had been present at creation |
Meditation 241 |
Ali, Muhammed |
You don't want no pie in the sky |
Meditation 380 |
Allen, Hervey |
Religions change; |
Meditation 142 |
Allen, Woody |
How can I believe in God |
Meditation 241 |
Allen, Woody |
I'm astounded by people who |
Meditation 286 |
Ambler, Eric |
For the skeptic there remains only one |
Meditation 96 |
Amin, Qasim |
The evidence of history confirms |
Meditation 211 |
Amis, Kingsley |
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense |
Meditation 269 |
Amos, Wally "Famous" |
Life isn't fair. |
Meditation 526 |
Anonymous |
A wise man can see more from |
Meditation 505 |
Anonymous |
Religion is for people who are afraid.. |
Meditation 64 |
Anonymous |
So many Christians long for integration of church |
Meditation 260 |
Anonymous |
The chicken probably came before the egg |
Meditation 269 |
Anonymous |
Theology: the study of |
Meditation 241 |
Anonymous |
When no one had answers they created God. |
Meditation 201 |
Anthony, Susan B |
I distrust those people who know so well |
Meditation 130 |
Aristotle |
All men by nature desire |
Meditation 635 |
Aristotle |
Rhetoric is usefull because |
Meditation 526 |
Aristotle |
The gods too, are fond |
Meditation 301 |
Aristotle |
The high-minded man must care more for |
Meditation 450 |
Aristotle |
The least initial deviation from the truth |
Meditation 117 |
Aristotle |
We become just by |
Meditation 401 |
Arnold, Matthew |
The true mystery of the world is |
Meditation 505 |
Asimov, Isaac |
However much the creationist leaders might |
Meditation 425 |
Asimov, Isaac |
Humanity has the stars in its future, |
Meditation 117 |
Asimov, Isaac |
I don't believe in an afterlife |
Meditation 526 |
Asimov, Isaac |
If knowledge can create problems |
Meditation 635 |
Asimov, Isaac |
Imagine the people who believe such things |
Meditation 251 |
Asimov, Isaac |
Man's greatest asset is |
Meditation 484 |
Asimov, Isaac |
Never let your morals |
Meditation 601 |
Asimov, Isaac |
Properly read, the Bible is |
Meditation 337 |
Asimov, Isaac |
The chief characteristic of the religion of |
Meditation 201 |
Asimov, Isaac |
The saddest aspect of life |
Meditation 547 |
Associated Press |
A Texas evangelist fled Cambodia on Saturday |
Meditation 201 |
Atkins, PW |
Religion closes off the central questions |
Meditation 190 |
Atkins, PW |
Someone with a fresh mind, |
Meditation 96 |
Atkinson, Brooks |
People everywhere enjoy believing things |
Meditation 251 |
Auden, W. H. |
Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide |
Meditation 401 |
Auden, W. H. |
We are here on earth to do good to others. |
Meditation 380 |
Aurelius, Marcus |
If anyone can show me, and prove to me, |
Meditation 89 |
Austen, Jane |
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that |
Meditation 547 |
Austen, Jane |
Such evil deeds |
Meditation 526 |
Bacon, Francis |
Let the mind be enlarged... |
Meditation 450 |
Bakunin, Mikhail A |
All religions, with their gods, |
Meditation 130 |
Bakunin, Mikhail A |
I reverse the phrase of Voltaire |
Meditation 349 |
Baraka, Imamu Amiri |
God has been replaced |
Meditation 117 |
Barber, Ron |
I see these two legendary men |
Meditation 180 |
Barker, Dan |
Faith is a cop-out. |
Meditation 622 |
Barry, Dave |
People who want to share their religious views |
Meditation 130 |
Barth, Karl |
Faith is never identical with piety. |
Meditation 180 |
Bernard, Claude |
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments |
Meditation 211 |
Berry, Chuck |
Of the five most important things |
Meditation 89 |
Biafra, Jello |
If you love God |
Meditation 241 |
Bierce, Ambrose |
Arma Virumque |
Meditation 180 |
Bierce, Ambrose |
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be |
Meditation 190 |
Billings, Josh |
It is better to know nothing |
Meditation 130 |
Billingsley, Lloyd |
The true fanatic is a theocrat, |
Meditation 96 |
Bizet, Georges |
Religion is a means of exploitation |
Meditation 201 |
Blake, William |
You never know what is enough |
Meditation 117 |
Bluestone, Ed |
If God wanted sex to be fun, |
Meditation 325 |
Bok, Derek |
If you think education is expensive, |
Meditation 301 |
Bonaparte, Napoleon |
Everything is more or less organized matter. |
Meditation 142 |
Bonaparte, Napoleon |
Governments only keep their promises... |
Meditation 162 |
Bonaparte, Napoleon |
In politics, stupidity... |
Meditation 117 |
Bonaparte, Napoleon |
Never ascribe to malice that which |
Meditation 471 |
Bonaparte, Napoleon |
Religion is what keeps... |
Meditation 83 |
Bonaparte, Napoleon |
The best way to keep... |
Meditation 122 |
Bonaparte, Napoleon |
There is no place in a fanatic's head |
Meditation 105 |
Boorstin, Daniel |
Human models are more vivid |
Meditation 471 |
Boorstin, Daniel |
I have observed that the world has suffered |
Meditation 286 |
Boosler, Elayne |
The Vatican is against surrogate |
Meditation 401 |
Borg, Marcus J |
Believing cannot tip the scales |
Meditation 231 |
Born, Max |
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and |
Meditation 622 |
Boucher, Anthony |
What is there to do in life but |
Meditation 401 |
Bradbury, Ray |
We have thousands of religions |
Meditation 201 |
Brandon, Nathaniel |
Anyone who engages in the practice of |
Meditation 275 |
Brazelton, Dr. T Barry |
At first I wanted to be... |
Meditation 83 |
Brecht, Dertolt |
Do not fear death so much |
Meditation 622 |
Bronowski, Jacob |
Man masters nature not by force |
Meditation 526 |
Bronte, Emily |
Vain are the thousand creeds |
Meditation 313 |
Broun, Heywood |
The pursuit of happiness belongs to us, |
Meditation 221 |
Brown, Justin |
If the Bible is mistaken in telling us |
Meditation 349 |
Bruce, Lenny |
Because I'm Jewish, a lot of people ask |
Meditation 301 |
Bruce, Lenny |
Every day, people are straying away |
Meditation 380 |
Bruce, Lenny |
If Christ had died in the 20th Century |
Meditation 275 |
Bryan, William Jennings |
If the Bible and the microscope do not agee |
Meditation 450 |
Buchanan, James |
I have not met an intelligent person whose |
Meditation 275 |
Buck, Pearl S |
I feel no need for any other faith |
Meditation 269 |
Buddha |
Be not misled by reports or tradition or |
Meditation 180 |
Buddha |
Believe nothing... |
Meditation 162 |
Buddha |
The gift of truth excels |
Meditation 425 |
Buddha |
The world is in continuous flux |
Meditation 484 |
Buddha |
To insist on a spiritual practice |
Meditation 130 |
Buffett, Jimmy |
My head hurts, |
Meditation 112 |
Bukowski, Charles |
For those who believe in God, |
Meditation 142 |
Bukowski, Charles |
God is a lonely place |
Meditation 105 |
Bumpersticker |
After the Rapture |
Meditation 364 |
Burbank, Luther |
As a scientist, I cannot help feeling that |
Meditation 325 |
Burke, Edmund |
No passion so effectively robs the mind |
Meditation 635 |
Burns, George |
For centuries, theologians have been explaining |
Meditation 547 |
Burns, Robert |
Why has a religious turn... |
Meditation 75 |
Burroughs, William F |
If you are doing business |
Meditation 122 |
Burton, Sir Richard Francis |
To believe in God or in a guiding force |
Meditation 547 |
Bush, George W |
I am also mindful that man should never |
Meditation 313 |
Bush, Vannevar |
The common idea that scientists reject a theory |
Meditation 471 |
Butler, Samuel |
A credulous mind ... finds most delight |
Meditation 622 |
Butler, Samuel |
An apology for the devil... |
Meditation 64 |
Butler, Samuel |
Christ was only crucified once |
Meditation 286 |
Butler, Samuel |
God was satisfied with |
Meditation 286 |
Butler, Samuel |
Religion is in the interest of churches |
Meditation 275 |
Butterfield, Sir Herbert |
The greatest menace to our civilization today |
Meditation 112 |
Caen, Herb |
The trouble with born again Christians |
Meditation 96 |
Caesar, Julius |
Men willingly believe what they wish. |
Meditation 231 |
Capra, Fritjof |
As long as we do science, some things |
Meditation 450 |
Carlin, George |
Here's another question I've been pondering |
Meditation 275 |
Carlin, George |
Honesty may be the best policy |
Meditation 325 |
Carlin, George |
I say if you're going to go for the Angel |
Meditation 286 |
Carlin, George |
I would never want to be a member of a group |
Meditation 313 |
Carlin, George |
I'm completely in favor of the separation |
Meditation 221 |
Carlin, George |
I've begun worshipping the sun |
Meditation 130 |
Carlin, George |
When it comes to God's existence |
Meditation 526 |
Carlin, George |
Who says life is sacred |
Meditation 325 |
Carlyle, Thomas |
If Jesus Christ were to come today, |
Meditation 170 |
Carter, Jimmy |
There can be no incompatibility between |
Meditation 364 |
Catholic Church |
The doctrine that the earth... |
Meditation 83 |
Cato the Younger |
We have long since lost the true names of things. |
Meditation 450 |
Chamfort, Nicholas |
The only thing that keeps god from |
Meditation 301 |
Charles, Ray |
I'm a firm believer in God himself, |
Meditation 152 |
Chase, Ilka |
It is usually when men are |
Meditation 89 |
Chesterton, G. K. |
It's not the world that has got so much worse |
Meditation 380 |
Chesterton, G. K. |
The Bible tells us to love |
Meditation 601 |
Chinese Proverb |
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, |
Meditation 484 |
Cicero |
The problem with people who have no vices |
Meditation 547 |
Clarke, Arthur C |
A faith that cannot survive collision with |
Meditation 337 |
Clarke, Arthur C |
I don't believe in God, but |
Meditation 286 |
Clarke, Arthur C |
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult |
Meditation 505 |
Clarke, Arthur C |
It may be our role on this planet |
Meditation 325 |
Clarke, Arthur C |
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe |
Meditation 313 |
Cleese, John |
What is absurd is not the teachings |
Meditation 380 |
Clifford, William K |
It is wrong always, everywhere, |
Meditation 349 |
Close, Chuck |
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, |
Meditation 211 |
Cohen, Chapman |
Gods are fragile things; |
Meditation 89 |
Cohen, Morris |
If religion cannot restrain evil |
Meditation 89 |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor |
He who begins by loving Christianity... |
Meditation 83 |
Colie, Rosalie |
Once you have denied the principles of science |
Meditation 313 |
Confucius |
I am a fortunate man. |
Meditation 401 |
Confucius |
Learning without thought is |
Meditation 505 |
Confucius |
When you know a thing, to hold that |
Meditation 635 |
Confucius |
You are not able even to serve man |
Meditation 425 |
Connolly, Billy |
The more you know |
Meditation 130 |
Conrad, Joseph |
The belief in a supernatural source of evil |
Meditation 89 |
Cooper, Thomas |
Only fraud and falsehood |
Meditation 105 |
Copernicus |
To know that we know what we know |
Meditation 380 |
Coward, Noel |
Miss Erickson looked even more peculiar |
Meditation 364 |
Crick, Francis |
Orgel's Second Rule: |
Meditation 484 |
Dalai Lama |
This is my simple religion. |
Meditation 162 |
Dalberg-Acton, John Emerich |
Power tends to corrupt and |
Meditation 251 |
Darrow, Clarence |
I am an agnostic; |
Meditation 162 |
Darrow, Clarence |
I don't believe in god because |
Meditation 201 |
Darrow, Clarence |
To have doubted one's own |
Meditation 547 |
Darwin, Charles |
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and |
Meditation 260 |
Darwin, Charles |
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) |
Meditation 190 |
Darwin, Charles |
It has often and confidently been asserted |
Meditation 425 |
Darwin, Charles |
The main conclusion arrived at in my work |
Meditation 450 |
Darwin, Charles |
The mystery of the beginning of all things |
Meditation 241 |
Davies, Robertson |
Fanaticism is . . . |
Meditation 275 |
Davies, Robertson |
The Bible takes much of its colour from |
Meditation 241 |
Dawkins, Richard |
Faith is the great cop-out |
Meditation 349 |
Dawkins, Richard |
I am against religion because it teaches |
Meditation 275 |
Dawkins, Richard |
Nearly all peoples have developed |
Meditation 349 |
Dawkins, Richard |
Religion is unusual among divisive labels |
Meditation 211 |
Dawkins, Richard |
We are all atheists about most |
Meditation 364 |
Dawkins, Richard |
We are built as gene machines and |
Meditation 380 |
de Goncourt, Jules |
If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as |
Meditation 105 |
de Gourmont, Remy |
Of all the sexual aberrations, |
Meditation 401 |
de La Bruyere, Jean |
A pious man is one who |
Meditation 325 |
de Montaigne, Michel |
Man is certainly stark mad... |
Meditation 75 |
de Vries, Peter |
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence |
Meditation 241 |
Deacon, George |
If absolute power corrupts absolutely |
Meditation 579 |
Dedering, FW |
Astrology is Taurus |
Meditation 425 |
Dewey, John |
A moral principle is not |
Meditation 105 |
Dickinson, Emily |
Faith is a fine invention |
Meditation 579 |
Dickinson, Emily |
Some keep the Sabbath |
Meditation 269 |
Diderot, Denis |
I have not the hope of being immortal |
Meditation 325 |
Diderot, Denis |
I have only a small flickering light |
Meditation 601 |
Diderot, Denis |
It is very important not to |
Meditation 579 |
Diderot, Denis |
Mankind have banned the Divinity from |
Meditation 96 |
Diderot, Denis |
Men will never be free until |
Meditation 286 |
Diderot, Denis |
Scepticism is the first step toward truth |
Meditation 221 |
Diderot, Denis |
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate |
Meditation 313 |
Dietrich, Marlene |
If there's a supreme being |
Meditation 286 |
Dietrich, Marlene |
In America, sex is an obsession. |
Meditation 301 |
Dietrich, Marlene |
Superstitions are habits |
Meditation 325 |
Diodorus Siculus |
The myths about Hades and the gods |
Meditation 269 |
Disraeli, Benjamin |
The greatest good you can do... |
Meditation 152 |
Disraeli, Benjamin |
To be conscious you are ignorant |
Meditation 117 |
Dobzhansky, Theodosius |
The business of proving evolution |
Meditation 579 |
Douglas, Norman |
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? |
Meditation 152 |
Douglas, William O |
I do not know of any salvation for society except |
Meditation 337 |
Douglas, William O |
Political or religious dissenters are |
Meditation 337 |
Douglass, Frederick |
Liberty is meaningless |
Meditation 105 |
Douglass, Frederick |
The simplest truths |
Meditation 112 |
Dr. Pepper |
Now please state the scientific theory of |
Meditation 526 |
Draper, John W |
How can the Church be received |
Meditation 170 |
Dunne, Finley Peter |
A fanatic is a man who does |
Meditation 286 |
Durrell, Lawrence |
it is with God we must be |
Meditation 89 |
Durrell, Lawrence |
None of the great religions |
Meditation 96 |
Durrell, Lawrence |
Religion is simply art bastardized |
Meditation 112 |
Durrell, Lawrence |
We are all looking... |
Meditation 83 |
Ebner-Eisenbach, Maria von |
One has to do good for it to exist |
Meditation 170 |
Eckhart, Meister |
If the only prayer you said |
Meditation 83 |
Edison, Thomas |
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul |
Meditation 313 |
Einstein, Albert |
A man's ethical behavior... |
Meditation 162 |
Einstein, Albert |
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, |
Meditation 484 |
Einstein, Albert |
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever |
Meditation 349 |
Einstein, Albert |
I cannot imagine a God |
Meditation 96 |
Einstein, Albert |
If we knew what it was we were doing, |
Meditation 450 |
Einstein, Albert |
My religiosity consists in a humble admiration |
Meditation 269 |
Einstein, Albert |
One thing I have learned in a long life |
Meditation 471 |
Einstein, Albert |
Only two things are infinite... |
Meditation 122 |
Einstein, Albert |
Science without religion is lame |
Meditation 96 |
Einstein, Albert |
True religion is real living; |
Meditation 130 |
Eisenhower, Dwight D |
The only way they'll ever get me into church |
Meditation 231 |
Eley, Steve |
Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of awesome |
Meditation 231 |
Eliade, Mircea |
Man makes himself... |
Meditation 83 |
Eliot, George |
Blessed is the man who |
Meditation 579 |
Ellis, Havelock |
A religion can no more afford to degrade |
Meditation 180 |
Ellison, Harlan |
In an early class, one of the students asked me |
Meditation 221 |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
As men's prayers are a disease of the will |
Meditation 275 |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
I like the silence of a church |
Meditation 269 |
Epictetus |
It is impossible for a man to begin |
Meditation 471 |
Epicurus |
Is god willing to prevent evil... |
Meditation 64 |
Ertz, Susan |
Millions long for immortality |
Meditation 83 |
Evans-Pritchard, EE |
If primitive religion could be explained away |
Meditation 96 |
Falwell, Jerry |
I feel most ministers who claim |
Meditation 152 |
Falwell, Jerry |
I want you to have all the academic freedom |
Meditation 425 |
Faure, Elie |
God is a child who amuses himself, |
Meditation 201 |
Feibleman, James |
A myth is a religion in which |
Meditation 142 |
Feiffer, Jules |
Christ died for our sins. |
Meditation 286 |
Feuerbach, Ludwig |
It is not as in the Bible |
Meditation 349 |
Feynman, Richard |
For a successful technology, reality must |
Meditation 484 |
Feynman, Richard |
I believe that a scientist looking at |
Meditation 622 |
Feynman, Richard |
I don't have to know an answer. |
Meditation 105 |
Feynman, Richard |
You see, one thing is, |
Meditation 117 |
Field, David Dudley |
The greatest achievement ever made |
Meditation 260 |
Fields, Emmet F |
The Theologian is an owl, |
Meditation 96 |
Fields, W.C |
I am free of all prejudices. |
Meditation 64 |
Fitzgerald, F Scott |
At 18, our convictions are hills |
Meditation 211 |
Fitzgerald, F Scott |
The test of a first-rate intelligence is |
Meditation 450 |
Flanagan, Brian |
When you feel that you have right |
Meditation 142 |
Flanagan, Brian |
You can do some terrible things |
Meditation 130 |
Flanders, Ned |
Science is like a blabbermouth |
Meditation 251 |
Flynt, Larry |
Religion has caused more harm than |
Meditation 180 |
Foote, George W |
There are two things in the world |
Meditation 170 |
Ford, Harrison |
Science is facts; just as houses are made of |
Meditation 547 |
Fowles, John |
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, |
Meditation 180 |
France, Anatole |
Nature has no principles. |
Meditation 190 |
Frankfurter, Felix |
Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's |
Meditation 260 |
Franklin, Benjamin |
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. |
Meditation 64 |
Franklin, Benjamin |
Lighthouses are more helpful |
Meditation 313 |
Franklin, Benjamin |
The way to see by faith is |
Meditation 364 |
Frederick the Great |
All religions must be tolerated... |
Meditation 105 |
Freud, Sigmund |
Devout believers are safeguarded |
Meditation 170 |
Freud, Sigmund |
If all the evidence put forward |
Meditation 180 |
Freud, Sigmund |
In the long run, nothing can withstand |
Meditation 112 |
Freud, Sigmund |
It would be very nice if there were |
Meditation 349 |
Freud, Sigmund |
Neither in my private life nor in my writings |
Meditation 313 |
Freud, Sigmund |
No, our science is no illusion. |
Meditation 190 |
Freud, Sigmund |
Religion is an illusion |
Meditation 425 |
Freud, Sigmund |
Religion restricts the play of choice |
Meditation 269 |
Freud, Sigmund |
The whole thing is so patently infantile |
Meditation 275 |
Friedman, Kinky |
In six days the Lord created the heavens |
Meditation 380 |
Friedman, Kinky |
We're all worm bait waiting |
Meditation 425 |
Friedman, Milton |
Underlying most arguments against |
Meditation 162 |
Gaiman, Neil |
God does not play dice with the universe; |
Meditation 130 |
Galbraith, J.K. |
The men of the technostructure are the new |
Meditation 221 |
Galilei, Galileo |
I do not feel oblighed to believe that |
Meditation 601 |
Galilei, Galileo |
In questions of science, the authority of |
Meditation 450 |
Geisel, Theodore Seuss |
Preachers in pulpits talked about |
Meditation 231 |
Ghandi, Mohandas |
Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great |
Meditation 251 |
Gibbon, Edward |
A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse |
Meditation 170 |
Gibbon, Edward |
Religion is a mere question of geography |
Meditation 152 |
Gibran, Kahlil |
I have learnt silence from the talkative |
Meditation 622 |
Gibran, Kahlil |
The test of courage comes when we are |
Meditation 547 |
Gill, Brendan |
The first step to getting the things you want |
Meditation 635 |
Glasgow, Arnold H |
The fewer the facts, the |
Meditation 601 |
Glassco, John |
But I was not, to use the theological |
Meditation 142 |
Godfrey, Laurie |
Scientific creationism may be poor science |
Meditation 425 |
Goldwater, Barry |
I think every good Christian... |
Meditation 75 |
Goldwater, Barry |
If they chased every man or woman out of |
Meditation 337 |
Gould, Stephen Jay |
In science, "fact" can only mean |
Meditation 601 |
Gould, Stephen Jay |
The effort to understand the universe |
Meditation 547 |
Gould, Stephen Jay |
The most erroneous stories are those |
Meditation 450 |
Green, Ruth Hermence |
There was a time when religion ruled the world |
Meditation 96 |
Gregory, Dick |
I never believed in Santa Claus because |
Meditation 313 |
Groen, Rick |
The only thing that makes a text sacred |
Meditation 130 |
Gualtieri, Antonio |
There is a disposition on the part of institutions |
Meditation 231 |
Guindon, Richard |
The good Lord never gives you more |
Meditation 251 |
Gunther, John |
Laws alone can not secure |
Meditation 547 |
Haldane, J.B.S |
Blake expressed some doubt as to whether |
Meditation 425 |
Haldane, J.B.S |
Scientific education and religious education are |
Meditation 251 |
Haldane, J.B.S |
The Creator, if He exists, |
Meditation 484 |
Haldeman-Julius, E |
A sober, devout man will interpret 'God's will' |
Meditation 201 |
Haldeman-Julius, E |
Credulity is not a crime for the individual |
Meditation 105 |
Hancock, Butch |
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me |
Meditation 83 |
Hardin, Garret |
The god who is reputed to have created fleas |
Meditation 425 |
Hare, David |
Writers always sound insufferably smug when |
Meditation 425 |
Harris, Emmylou |
God is the big question mark. |
Meditation 241 |
Harris, Sam |
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is |
Meditation 401 |
Harrison, Harry |
I face reality and admit |
Meditation 112 |
Hawking, Stephen W |
What I have done is to show that it is possible |
Meditation 89 |
Hebbel, Friedrich |
Religion is the highest vanity. |
Meditation 180 |
Heine, Heinerich |
In dark ages people are best guided by religion |
Meditation 64 |
Heinlein, Robert A |
A desire not to butt into other people's |
Meditation 505 |
Heinlein, Robert A |
Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty |
Meditation 122 |
Heinlein, Robert A |
God is omnipotent, omniscient |
Meditation 96 |
Heinlein, Robert A |
History doesn't record... |
Meditation 75 |
Heinlein, Robert A |
History has the relation to truth |
Meditation 89 |
Heinlein, Robert A |
Look friends, the only possible way to enjoy |
Meditation 450 |
Heinlein, Robert A |
Men rarely (if ever) manage to |
Meditation 142 |
Heinlein, Robert A |
Never attribute to conspiracy that which |
Meditation 471 |
Heinlein, Robert A |
Never underestimae the power |
Meditation 112 |
Heinlein, Robert A |
The faith in which I was brought up |
Meditation 112 |
Heinlein, Robert A |
Theology is never any help; |
Meditation 75 |
Heller, Joseph |
All of our religions but the |Judaic |
Meditation 471 |
Heller, Joseph |
From men motivated by moral certitude, |
Meditation 484 |
Heller, Joseph |
How much reverence can you have |
Meditation 380 |
Herbert, Frank |
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery |
Meditation 450 |
Herbert, Frank |
When politics and religion are intermingled, |
Meditation 201 |
Hermann, Mike |
Organized religion is like organized crime; |
Meditation 117 |
Heydt, Wilson |
As soon as you are willing to discard |
Meditation 211 |
Hilton, Peter |
It is a wry commentary on the value-system |
Meditation 211 |
Hippocrates |
Where prayer, amulets and incantations... |
Meditation 83 |
Hitchens, Christopher |
Religion is not just ingongruent |
Meditation 170 |
Hitchens, Christopher |
Religion of every kind involves the promise |
Meditation 112 |
Hobbes, Thomas |
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of |
Meditation 275 |
Hobbes, Thomas |
To say that God is an incorporeal substance, |
Meditation 142 |
Hodgson, Ralph |
Some things have to be believed to be seen. |
Meditation 180 |
Hoffer, Eric |
Absolute faith corrupts as |
Meditation 579 |
Hoffer, Eric |
Faith in a holy cause |
Meditation 170 |
Hoffer, Eric |
The opposite of the religious fanatic |
Meditation 117 |
Hoffer, Eric |
There are many who have grave scruples |
Meditation 152 |
Hoffer, Eric |
To be effective a doctrine must not |
Meditation 325 |
Hoffer, Eric |
When people are free |
Meditation 162 |
Hoffer, Eric |
You can discover what your enemy |
Meditation 505 |
Holden, William M |
Hell is paved with |
Meditation 286 |
Holly |
As the days go by, we face the increasing |
Meditation 75 |
Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell |
Just think of the tragedy of teaching |
Meditation 622 |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell |
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture |
Meditation 260 |
Horowitz, David |
Don't bury the life you have been given |
Meditation 526 |
Huang Po |
The foolish reject |
Meditation 349 |
Hubbard, Elbert |
A mystic is a person who |
Meditation 180 |
Hubbard, Elbert |
The supernatural is the natural |
Meditation 251 |
Hubbard, Elbert |
We are punished by our sins, |
Meditation 170 |
Hughes, Frank C |
In this "sacred book" of family scandals |
Meditation 64 |
Hume, David |
Examine the religious principles |
Meditation 286 |
Hume, David |
Generally speaking, the errors in religion |
Meditation 117 |
Hume, David |
If there ba a soul |
Meditation 313 |
Hume, David |
No testimony is sufficient to establish |
Meditation 364 |
Hume, David |
The Christian religion was not only the first |
Meditation 301 |
Hume, David |
The many instances of forged miracles |
Meditation 117 |
Hume, David |
Why, then, eternal punishment for |
Meditation 286 |
Huxley, Aldous |
Facts do not cease to exist |
Meditation 505 |
Huxley, Aldous |
If we must play the theological game |
Meditation 180 |
Huxley, Aldous |
Nobody can have the consolations of religion |
Meditation 105 |
Huxley, Aldous |
You never see animals going through the absurd |
Meditation 170 |
Huxley, Julian |
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble |
Meditation 190 |
Huxley, Thomas Henry |
Agnosticism is not properly described as a |
Meditation 526 |
Huxley, Thomas Henry |
I am too much of a skeptic |
Meditation 190 |
Huxley, Thomas Henry |
Science is nothing but trained and organized |
Meditation 635 |
Hypatia |
Reserve your right to think, |
Meditation 380 |
Illich, Ivan |
School is an institution built on the axiom |
Meditation 471 |
Inge, William Ralph |
To become a popular religion, |
Meditation 130 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
A believer is a bird in a cage |
Meditation 251 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
Creationists use facts the same way a drunk |
Meditation 425 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
Few nations have been so poor |
Meditation 349 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged |
Meditation 221 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
Give the church a place in the Constitution, |
Meditation 190 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
Hands that help are far better |
Meditation 364 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
I have little confidence |
Meditation 152 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
I want it so that every minister will not be |
Meditation 122 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
If a man would follow, today, the teachings |
Meditation 275 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
If the Bible and my brain... |
Meditation 89 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
In nature there are neither rewards nor |
Meditation 286 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
It is a lie, |
Meditation 142 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
It is a thousand times better |
Meditation 241 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
It is an old habit... |
Meditation 142 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
It is contended by many that ours is a Christian |
Meditation 260 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
Let us put theology out of religion |
Meditation 260 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
Our hope of immortality does not come |
Meditation 251 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
Religion has not civilized man |
Meditation 117 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
Religion supports nobody |
Meditation 201 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
Suppose, however, that God did give |
Meditation 180 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
Take from the church the miraculous |
Meditation 96 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
The hands that help are better |
Meditation 301 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
This crime called blasphemy |
Meditation 349 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
We are not accountable for the sins |
Meditation 241 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
We are told in the Pentateuch, |
Meditation 231 |
Ingersoll, Robert G |
When a man really believes that it is necessary |
Meditation 211 |
Jackson, Robert H |
The day that this country ceases to be free |
Meditation 260 |
Jackson, Robert H |
Thought control is a copyright |
Meditation 122 |
James, Dresden |
When a well-packaged web of lies |
Meditation 162 |
James, William |
A great many people think they are |
Meditation 471 |
Jefferson, Thomas |
A cult is a religion with |
Meditation 484 |
Jefferson, Thomas |
I have recently been examining |
Meditation 301 |
Jefferson, Thomas |
It has been fifty and six years since |
Meditation 152 |
Jefferson, Thomas |
Question with boldness even the existence |
Meditation 269 |
Jefferson, Thomas |
Shake off all the fears of servile |
Meditation 349 |
Jefferson, Thomas |
The day will come when the mystical |
Meditation 301 |
Jefferson, Thomas |
What has been the effect of religious coercion? |
Meditation 105 |
Jennings, Gary |
After the survivor of the Spanish conquest |
Meditation 211 |
Joel, Billy |
They say there's a heaven for those |
Meditation 64 |
John, Elton |
I think people should be free to engage in |
Meditation 601 |
Johnston, Denis |
The Cross is a gibbet |
Meditation 231 |
Kant, Immanuel |
Apart from moral conduct, all that man |
Meditation 221 |
Kant, Immanuel |
I had to set limits to knowledge |
Meditation 83 |
Kant, Immanuel |
Religion is too important a matter |
Meditation 301 |
Kant, Immanuel |
The death of dogma is |
Meditation 301 |
Keats, John |
The only means of strengthening one's intellect |
Meditation 471 |
Keller, Helen |
It is wonderful how much time good people |
Meditation 170 |
Keller, Helen |
People do not like to think |
Meditation 231 |
Keller, Paul |
Faith is a euphemism for... |
Meditation 64 |
Kennedy, John F |
I believe in an America where the separation |
Meditation 260 |
Kerouac, Jack |
I don't know. I don't care, |
Meditation 380 |
Khayyam, Omar |
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky |
Meditation 190 |
Khayyam, Omar |
The revelations of the devout and learn'd |
Meditation 275 |
King, Stephen |
The beauty of religious mania |
Meditation 122 |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
Prayer had always struck me as... |
Meditation 142 |
Kipling, Rudyard |
The Three in One, the One in Three? |
Meditation 190 |
Koestler, Arthur |
I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish |
Meditation 180 |
Korzybski, Alfred |
There are two ways to slide easily through life; |
Meditation 622 |
Krakauer, Jon |
Common senses is no match... |
Meditation 162 |
Krakauer, Jon |
I don't know if God even exists, |
Meditation 142 |
Krishnamurti, Jiddu |
Freedom from the desire for an answer |
Meditation 601 |
Krishnamurti, Jiddu |
Truth is a pathless land, |
Meditation 211 |
Kristoff, Nicholas D |
Despite the lack of scientific or historical |
Meditation 286 |
Kundera, Milan |
Hate traps us by binding us |
Meditation 547 |
Lal, Pravin |
Scientific theories are judged by |
Meditation 579 |
Lamb, Charles |
I am determined that my children shall |
Meditation 337 |
Lavner, Lynn |
The Bible contains six admonishments to |
Meditation 622 |
Le Bon, Gustave |
The masses have never thirsted |
Meditation 96 |
Leahy, Patrick |
For the church to say that abortion is not |
Meditation 190 |
Leary, Timothy |
Intelligence is the... |
Meditation 162 |
Leary, Timothy |
Man's best friend is his dogma |
Meditation 105 |
Leary, Timothy |
The universe is an intelligence test. |
Meditation 122 |
Leary, Timothy |
Think for yourself... |
Meditation 112 |
Leary, Timothy |
You're only as young as... |
Meditation 117 |
Leclerc, Georges-Louis |
It is easier to dream up |
Meditation 325 |
Lee, Chris |
Would you sing 'Krishna bless America' |
Meditation 180 |
LeGuin, Ursula K |
By such literalism, fundamentalism, |
Meditation 142 |
LeGuin, Ursula K |
The only thing that makes life possible is |
Meditation 505 |
Lennon, John |
God is a concept by which |
Meditation 180 |
Lennon, John |
Jesus was all right, but his disciples |
Meditation 241 |
Leszczynski, Stanislaw |
To believe with certainty we |
Meditation 635 |
Levensen, Sam |
We must learn from the mistakes of others. |
Meditation 260 |
Levine, Mark |
Proof is not anecdotal. Proof is |
Meditation 635 |
Lewis, C.S. |
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good |
Meditation 221 |
Lewis, Sinclair |
I am convinced that everything that is |
Meditation 622 |
Lichtenburg, Georg Christoph |
One's first step in wisdom is to |
Meditation 635 |
Lichtenburg, Georg Christoph |
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic |
Meditation 526 |
Lincoln, Abraham |
But I cannot give liberty of conscience to |
Meditation 241 |
Lincoln, Abraham |
How many legs does a dog have if |
Meditation 547 |
Lincoln, Abraham |
It has been my experience that folks who |
Meditation 425 |
Lincoln, Abraham |
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion |
Meditation 231 |
Lincoln, Abraham |
The Bible is not my Book |
Meditation 269 |
Lippmann, Walter |
The radical novelty of modern science |
Meditation 260 |
Lister, Dave |
This is terrible! Holy wars! Killing! |
Meditation 190 |
Lorenz, Konrad |
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be |
Meditation 622 |
Lucretius |
Religion has the power to induce |
Meditation 122 |
Lunn, Arnold |
The theory that... |
Meditation 75 |
Luyah, Hal Lee |
Man was predestined |
Meditation 401 |
Lynn, Loretta |
There are more hypocrites in church |
Meditation 211 |
Macauley, Dame Rose |
Most of my friends are not Christians |
Meditation 337 |
Madison, James |
During almost fifteen centuries |
Meditation 269 |
Magellan, Ferdinand |
The Church says that the Earth is flat... |
Meditation 75 |
Mahar, Bill |
I believe Dr. Kevorkian is onto something. |
Meditation 313 |
Marat, Jean Paul |
God has always been hard |
Meditation 251 |
Marquis, Don |
If you make people think they're thinking |
Meditation 471 |
Marx Karl |
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed |
Meditation 349 |
Marx Karl |
The first requisite for the happiness of |
Meditation 364 |
Mather, Joshua David |
Belief and sincerity do not |
Meditation 579 |
Matthews, Tony |
History has shown us that we have |
Meditation 484 |
Maughm, Somerset |
I don't know why it is that the religious never |
Meditation 221 |
Maurois, Andre |
The difficult part in an argument |
Meditation 170 |
Maurois, Andre |
The value of the average conversation |
Meditation 622 |
Maxwell, James Clerk |
It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that |
Meditation 601 |
McCaughey, JD |
God is dead, but |
Meditation 401 |
McEwan, Ian |
Mostly, we are good when it makes sense. |
Meditation 105 |
McKinsey, Dennis |
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, |
Meditation 269 |
McKown, Delo |
The invisible and the non-existant... |
Meditation 64 |
McLachlan, Matthew |
Age doesn't always bring wisdom, |
Meditation 484 |
Meeri, Khudair |
I have found that 90 per cent of religious beliefs |
Meditation 170 |
Menander |
It is not white hair that |
Meditation 601 |
Menander |
Those who wish to appear wise among fools |
Meditation 547 |
Mencken, HL |
A Galileo could no more be elected president |
Meditation 105 |
Mencken, HL |
Faith may be defined briefly |
Meditation 269 |
Mencken, HL |
God is the immemorial refuge... |
Meditation 152 |
Mencken, HL |
I detest converts almost as much as |
Meditation 337 |
Mencken, HL |
Only the mediocre can be |
Meditation 547 |
Mencken, HL |
Religion is fundamentally opposed |
Meditation 96 |
Mencken, HL |
Sunday school: a prison in which children |
Meditation 221 |
Mencken, HL |
The difference between a moral man... |
Meditation 64 |
Mencken, HL |
The wisest mind has something |
Meditation 635 |
Mencken, HL |
Theology is the effort to explain |
Meditation 425 |
Meyers, Seth |
Reverend Paul Barnes, the pastor of a Denver |
Meditation 601 |
Mill, John Stuart |
Co-operation, like other difficult things |
Meditation 484 |
Mill, John Stuart |
In sober truth, nearly all the things |
Meditation 349 |
Mill, John Stuart |
The tendency has always been strong to believe |
Meditation 241 |
Mill, John Stuart |
The world would be astonished if it knew |
Meditation 89 |
Miller, Arthur |
I don't believe in the... |
Meditation 162 |
Miller, Arthur |
Whenever I hear someone's in touch |
Meditation 142 |
Miller, Dennis |
Is intelligence a liability |
Meditation 349 |
Miller, Dennis |
The biggest conspiracy has always been |
Meditation 401 |
Miller, Dennis |
TV evangelists say they don't favor |
Meditation 337 |
Mitchell, Richard |
There is only one Education, |
Meditation 190 |
Mizner, Wilson |
I respect faith, but doubt is what |
Meditation 635 |
Montagu, Ashley |
Scientists believe in proof without certainty |
Meditation 425 |
Montesquieu, Baron de |
Churchmen are interested in keeping |
Meditation 325 |
Montesquieu, Baron de |
History is full of religious wars; |
Meditation 301 |
Montesquieu, Baron de |
If triangles made a god, |
Meditation 313 |
Montesquieu, Baron de |
No kingdom has ever suffered as many |
Meditation 325 |
Montessori, Maria |
The greatest step forward in human evolution |
Meditation 231 |
Monty Python |
Well, it's like I always said, |
Meditation 105 |
Moore, Patrick |
Astrology proves just one |
Meditation 579 |
Morley, Christopher |
My theology, briefly, is that the universe |
Meditation 364 |
Morris, Desmond |
Religious Displays, as distinct from religious |
Meditation 112 |
Most, Johann |
As set forth by theologians, |
Meditation 201 |
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick |
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but |
Meditation 505 |
Mulcahy, Father (M.A.S.H.) |
A faith of convenience is a hollow faith |
Meditation 122 |
Mullally, Joe |
I judge a religion as... |
Meditation 75 |
Murphy, Rex |
Everything written, if it has anything in it, will |
Meditation 505 |
Mussolini, Benito |
The history of saints is mainly |
Meditation 337 |
Nealon, Kevin |
The ethical argument regarding abortion |
Meditation 380 |
Nelson ,Willie |
I believe that all roads lead to the same place |
Meditation 231 |
New York Times |
Any organization could profit |
Meditation 142 |
Nicholson, Jack |
Do unto others. |
Meditation 117 |
Nicholson, Jack |
I resist all established beliefs. |
Meditation 105 |
Nicholson, Jack |
When we make mistakes they call it evil. |
Meditation 231 |
Niebuhr, Reinhold |
We make simple moral judgments, |
Meditation 526 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
After coming in contact with a religious man |
Meditation 89 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
All religions bear traces of the fact |
Meditation 275 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
Assuming that he believes at all |
Meditation 241 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
God is dead |
Meditation 170 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
If you gaze long enough into an abyss |
Meditation 601 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
It is better to know nothing |
Meditation 122 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
Jesus died too soon. |
Meditation 364 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
Mystical explanations are considered deep. |
Meditation 170 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
One should not go into church |
Meditation 231 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
The advent of the Christian God, |
Meditation 301 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
The Christian resolution... |
Meditation 75 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
Which is it:... |
Meditation 83 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich |
Whoever fights monsters |
Meditation 579 |
Nixon, Richard M. |
I would have nade a |
Meditation 579 |
Oakeshott, Michael |
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining |
Meditation 484 |
Ogilvie, O.C. |
Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical... |
Meditation 142 |
O'Hair, Madalyn |
The church doctrines of obedience to authority |
Meditation 269 |
O'Malley, Austin |
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals |
Meditation 201 |
Oppenheimer, J. Robert |
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry |
Meditation 251 |
O'Rourke, PJ |
Making fun of born-again Christians |
Meditation 152 |
O'Rourke, PJ |
There is only one basic human right, |
Meditation 142 |
O'Rourke, PJ |
To mistrust science and deny the validity |
Meditation 364 |
Orwell, George |
If liberty means anything at all |
Meditation 130 |
Orwell, George |
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, |
Meditation 152 |
Orwell, George |
One cannot judge... |
Meditation 162 |
Orwell, George |
We are all capable of believing things |
Meditation 260 |
Osborne, John |
It is easy to ask the ulimate questions |
Meditation 251 |
O'Toole, Peter |
When did I realise I was God? |
Meditation 601 |
Ovid |
Let others praise ancient times; |
Meditation 301 |
Owen, Robert |
My reason taught me that I could not have |
Meditation 112 |
Pagels, Heinz |
I like to browse in occult bookshops |
Meditation 251 |
Paine, Thomas |
All national institutions of churches |
Meditation 96 |
Paine, Thomas |
Any system of religion |
Meditation 117 |
Paine, Thomas |
Give to every other human being |
Meditation 152 |
Paine, Thomas |
I do not believe in the creed professed |
Meditation 269 |
Paine, Thomas |
My country is the world.. |
Meditation 64 |
Paine, Thomas |
The world is my country, |
Meditation 231 |
Paine, Thomas |
Whenever we read the obscene stories |
Meditation 275 |
Parton, Dolly |
What people do behind closed doors |
Meditation 380 |
Pascal, Blaise |
It is very much better to know something |
Meditation 122 |
Pascal, Blaise |
Reason commands us much more imperiously |
Meditation 231 |
Pascal, Blaise |
There is a God-shaped vaccuum |
Meditation 75 |
Pavlov, Ivan |
It is a good morning exercise for a |
Meditation 547 |
Planck, Max |
A new scientific truth does not triumph |
Meditation 471 |
Plato |
Those who are too smart to engage |
Meditation 425 |
Plautus, Titus Maccius |
Not by age, but by capacity |
Meditation 505 |
Plautus, Titus Maccius |
The gods play games with men |
Meditation 241 |
Plimer, Ian |
The creationists have this creator who |
Meditation 601 |
Pliny the Elder |
In these matters the only certainty is |
Meditation 505 |
Poe, Edgar Allen |
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved |
Meditation 211 |
Poe, Edgar Allen |
No man who ever lived knows any more |
Meditation 275 |
Poincare, Henri |
Doubt everything or believe everything |
Meditation 425 |
Poincare, Henri |
It is through science that we prove |
Meditation 471 |
Polybius |
Since the masses of the people are inconsistent, |
Meditation 201 |
Powys, Llewelyn |
The world is in need of less religion |
Meditation 170 |
Pratchett, Terry |
God does not play dice with the universe; |
Meditation 130 |
Protagoras |
As to the gods, I have no way of knowing |
Meditation 337 |
Proust, Marcel |
To acquire knowledge, one must |
Meditation 526 |
proverb (Arabian) |
Trust in Allah, |
Meditation 301 |
proverb (Hindu) |
Saints fly only in the eyes of their disciples. |
Meditation 96 |
proverb (Jewish) |
If God lived on Earth |
Meditation 313 |
Publilius Syrus |
It is a bad plan that |
Meditation 401 |
Rand, Ayn |
Existence exists - |
Meditation 162 |
Rand, Ayn |
Faith, as such, is extremely detrimental |
Meditation 190 |
Rand, Ayn |
If devotion to truth is the hallmatk |
Meditation 89 |
Rand, Ayn |
The alleged shortcut to knowledge |
Meditation 275 |
Rand, Ayn |
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God |
Meditation 231 |
Rand, Ayn |
When one turns from reason to faith |
Meditation 269 |
Rauch, Jonathan |
The greatest development in modern religion |
Meditation 152 |
Raymo, Chet |
Coincidence is the evidence of |
Meditation 622 |
Rees, J Tudor |
Reputation is what you are in the limelight; |
Meditation 231 |
Reeve, Christopher |
Living in fear is not living at all. |
Meditation 221 |
Reeve, Christopher |
Never accept ultimatums, |
Meditation 211 |
Renard, Jules |
I don't know if God exists, but |
Meditation 83 |
Renard, Jules |
We must be greater than God, |
Meditation 221 |
Richler, Mordecai |
If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions |
Meditation 313 |
Roberts, Stephen F |
I contend that we are both atheists. |
Meditation 130 |
Robinson, Edwin Arlington |
The world is not a prison house |
Meditation 105 |
Roddenberry, Gene |
We must question the story logic |
Meditation 275 |
Rogers, Will |
If stupidity got us into |
Meditation 622 |
Rogers, Will |
Live your life so that |
Meditation 579 |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
Those of us who believe in the right |
Meditation 64 |
Ross, Stanley Ralph |
Do television evangelists do more |
Meditation 401 |
Rostand, Jean |
Kill one man and you are a murderer |
Meditation 251 |
Rosten, Leo |
I never cease being dumbfounded by |
Meditation 635 |
Rubbia, Carlo |
Science for me is very close to art. |
Meditation 450 |
Rushdie, Salman |
Free speech is the whole thing, |
Meditation 105 |
Rushdie, Salman |
Fundamentalism isn't about religion... |
Meditation 75 |
Rushdie, Salman |
I do not envy people |
Meditation 112 |
Rushdie, Salman |
If I were asked for a one sentence |
Meditation 201 |
Rushdie, Salman |
It's very, very easy... |
Meditation 117 |
Rushdie, Salman |
The idea of the sacred... |
Meditation 142 |
Rushdie, Salman |
To put it as simply as possible... |
Meditation 83 |
Rushdie, Salman |
What is freedom of expression? |
Meditation 122 |
Russell, Bertrand |
According to St. Thomas, the soul |
Meditation 601 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Christians hold that their faith does good |
Meditation 275 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Ethics is in origin the art |
Meditation 170 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Few people can be happy unless they hate |
Meditation 260 |
Russell, Bertrand |
I am constantly asked |
Meditation 83 |
Russell, Bertrand |
I do not pretend to be able to prove |
Meditation 349 |
Russell, Bertrand |
I found one day in school a boy of medium size |
Meditation 75 |
Russell, Bertrand |
I think we ought always to entertain our |
Meditation 635 |
Russell, Bertrand |
I wish to propose for the reader |
Meditation 64 |
Russell, Bertrand |
If you think that your belief is based upon reason |
Meditation 471 |
Russell, Bertrand |
It is not altogether true that persuasion |
Meditation 484 |
Russell, Bertrand |
It is not by prayer and humility |
Meditation 286 |
Russell, Bertrand |
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold |
Meditation 231 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Man is a credulous animal |
Meditation 75 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Man is a credulous animal, |
Meditation 221 |
Russell, Bertrand |
My own view of religion is |
Meditation 325 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Not to be absolutely certain |
Meditation 526 |
Russell, Bertrand |
One occasion for the theological intervention |
Meditation 275 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear. |
Meditation 260 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Remember your humanity... |
Meditation 64 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Science tells us what we can know |
Meditation 112 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Since evolution became fashionable |
Meditation 269 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Some advanced thinkers are of the opinion |
Meditation 547 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Supposing you got a crate of oranges |
Meditation 201 |
Russell, Bertrand |
The agnostic is not quite so certain as |
Meditation 622 |
Russell, Bertrand |
The Christian view that all intercourse outside |
Meditation 269 |
Russell, Bertrand |
The date of the creation of the world |
Meditation 505 |
Russell, Bertrand |
The demand for certainty is |
Meditation 579 |
Russell, Bertrand |
The fact that an opinion has been widely held |
Meditation 313 |
Russell, Bertrand |
The trouble with the world is |
Meditation 190 |
Russell, Bertrand |
There is something feeble... |
Meditation 75 |
Russell, Bertrand |
Truth is a shining goddess, |
Meditation 211 |
Russell, Bertrand |
We may define "faith" |
Meditation 83 |
Russell, Bertrand |
We must therefore ask ourselves |
Meditation 241 |
Russell, Bertrand |
What the world needs is not dogma |
Meditation 89 |
Russell, Bertrand |
You find as you look around the world that |
Meditation 241 |
Ruth, Babe |
Fear is the main source of superstition |
Meditation 547 |
Sade, Marquis de |
Anything beyond the limits and grasp of |
Meditation 201 |
Sagan, Carl |
At the heart of pseudoscience |
Meditation 190 |
Sagan, Carl |
Extraordinary claims... |
Meditation 83 |
Sagan, Carl |
If we long to believe that the stars |
Meditation 401 |
Sagan, Carl |
If you want to save your child... |
Meditation 152 |
Sagan, Carl |
In science it often happens that scientists say |
Meditation 380 |
Sagan, Carl |
It is far better to grasp the Universe |
Meditation 484 |
Sagan, Carl |
One of the saddest lessons |
Meditation 162 |
Sagan, Carl |
The evidence, so far at least |
Meditation 601 |
Sagan, Carl |
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas |
Meditation 526 |
Sagan, Carl |
The universe is neither benign nor hostile |
Meditation 380 |
Sagan, Carl |
When you make the finding yourself |
Meditation 622 |
Sagan, Carl |
Where skeptical observation and discussion |
Meditation 635 |
Salacrou, Armand |
The existence of a world without God |
Meditation 349 |
Sanger, Margaret |
No gods, no masters |
Meditation 313 |
Santayana, George |
Each religion, so dear to those whose life |
Meditation 105 |
Santayana, George |
The older I grow the more I distrust |
Meditation 505 |
Santayana, George |
There is no cure for life |
Meditation 286 |
Saroyan, William |
Good people are good because |
Meditation 505 |
Sartre, Jean-Paul |
Man is condemned to be free; |
Meditation 211 |
Sartre, Jean-Paul |
The existentialist thinks it very distressing |
Meditation 349 |
Satie, Erik |
Why attack God? |
Meditation 380 |
Scanlon, Russell |
As far as I'm concerned, fundamentalism, |
Meditation 130 |
Schiller, Frederich von |
Against stupidity, the Gods themselves |
Meditation 117 |
Schrader, Don |
To hear many religious people talk |
Meditation 260 |
Schultz, Charles |
Don't worry about the world coming to an end |
Meditation 221 |
Schumaker, John F |
Without cultural sanction, |
Meditation 162 |
Scopes, John |
You don't protect any of your |
Meditation 450 |
Seneca |
Religion is what the common people |
Meditation 130 |
Seneca the Younger |
Many men would have arrived at wisdom |
Meditation 313 |
Seneca, Lucius Amaeus |
Religion is regarded by the common people |
Meditation 64 |
Shakespeare, William |
The fool doth think himself wise |
Meditation 505 |
Shakespeare, William |
The whole problem with the world is |
Meditation 547 |
Shaw, George Bernard |
All great truths begin as blasphemies. |
Meditation 211 |
Shaw, George Bernard |
All progress depends on... |
Meditation 89 |
Shaw, George Bernard |
At present there is not a single credible |
Meditation 96 |
Shaw, George Bernard |
Beware of the man whose God |
Meditation 117 |
Shaw, George Bernard |
He is a barbarian and thinks |
Meditation 425 |
Shaw, George Bernard |
The churches must learn humility |
Meditation 211 |
Shaw, George Bernard |
The fact that a believer... |
Meditation 152 |
Shaw, George Bernard |
The savage bows down... |
Meditation 75 |
Shaw, George Bernard |
There is only one religion, |
Meditation 190 |
Shaw, George Bernard |
Why should we take advice on sex |
Meditation 269 |
Shawcross, Hartley |
There comes a point |
Meditation 152 |
Shelley, Percy Bysshe |
It is easier to suppose |
Meditation 83 |
Siegel, Bernie S. |
It is the experience of living that |
Meditation 579 |
Simplot, JR |
I got no religion in me |
Meditation 89 |
Simpson, George Gaylord |
It is obvious that the great majority of humans |
Meditation 622 |
Simpson, George Gaylord |
The opposition to teaching evolution is |
Meditation 635 |
Simpson, Homer |
I'm not normally a religious man, |
Meditation 112 |
Singer, Isaac B |
We must believe in free will. |
Meditation 471 |
Sitwell, Edit |
Death is nothing to us |
Meditation 526 |
Smith, Cameron M |
If an entirely new scientific theory with more |
Meditation 401 |
Smith, George H |
The third major characteristic of God |
Meditation 112 |
Smith, Margaret |
If I had been the Virgin Mary |
Meditation 251 |
Smith, Sidney |
The observances of the church concerning feasts |
Meditation 190 |
Socrates |
Children today are tyrants. |
Meditation 401 |
Socrates |
The point which I would first understand |
Meditation 401 |
Sontag, Susan |
The only interesting answers |
Meditation 162 |
Sophocles |
What you cannot enforce, |
Meditation 380 |
Sophocles |
Wisdom outweighs |
Meditation 505 |
Spector, Phil |
If you talk to God, |
Meditation 221 |
Spencer, Herbert |
There is a principle which is a bar to |
Meditation 450 |
Spinoza, Baruch |
Popular religion may be summed up |
Meditation 337 |
Spong, John Shelby |
A major function of fundamentalist religion |
Meditation 152 |
Spong, John Shelby |
The Bible has lost every major battle |
Meditation 231 |
Springsteen, Bruce |
Well did God make man in a breath |
Meditation 450 |
Stein, Ben |
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of |
Meditation 547 |
Stein, Gertrude |
There ain't no answer. |
Meditation 401 |
Steinem, Gloria |
By the year 2000, we will, I hope, |
Meditation 337 |
Steinem, Gloria |
It is an incredible con job |
Meditation 64 |
Steinem, Gloria |
The art of acting morally |
Meditation 170 |
Stendahl |
All religions are founded on the fear of |
Meditation 201 |
Stephen, Leslie |
The truth cannot be asserted without |
Meditation 251 |
Stevenson, Adlai E |
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord |
Meditation 301 |
Stevenson, Adlai E |
If we value the pursuit of knowledge |
Meditation 635 |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
There is an idea abroad among moral people |
Meditation 162 |
Stokes, Anson Phelps |
In addition, the New York Supreme Court |
Meditation 260 |
Stokes, Bob |
The world is proof |
Meditation 364 |
Sullivan, Charles |
If an entirely new scientific theory with more |
Meditation 401 |
Swaggart, Jimmy |
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy |
Meditation 635 |
Sweeney, Julia |
Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing |
Meditation 64 |
Swift, Jonathan |
We have just enough religion to make us hate, |
Meditation 162 |
Szasz, Thomas |
If you talk to God... |
Meditation 75 |
Szent-Gyoergi, Albert |
Research is to see what everybody else |
Meditation 484 |
Taft, William Howard |
I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, |
Meditation 325 |
Tagore, Rabindranath |
If you shut your door to all errors, |
Meditation 505 |
Tennyson, Alfred |
There lives more faith in honest doubt, |
Meditation 484 |
Theresa of Avila (Saint) |
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, |
Meditation 221 |
Thomas, Lewis |
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists |
Meditation 622 |
Thoreau, Henry |
I didn't know I had a quarrel with him. |
Meditation 162 |
Thoreau, Henry |
If I knew for certain that a man was coming |
Meditation 122 |
Titus Maccius Plautus |
No man is wise enough |
Meditation 526 |
Tolstoy, Leo |
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use |
Meditation 122 |
Tolstoy, Leo |
To regard Christ as God, and |
Meditation 337 |
Tomlin, Lily |
No matter how cynical you become |
Meditation 337 |
Tomlin, Lily |
When we talk to God, we're praying. |
Meditation 364 |
Tozer |
The history of mankind... |
Meditation 64 |
Treaty with Tripoli |
The government of the United States is |
Meditation 260 |
Trotsky, Leon |
Not only in peasant homes |
Meditation 269 |
Trotter, Wilfred |
The various systems of doctrine that have |
Meditation 325 |
Trumble, Dennis R |
Evidence carefully sifted can be enlisted to |
Meditation 364 |
Trumble, Dennis R |
The myriad approaches adopted by |
Meditation 364 |
Turgenev, Ivan |
Whatever a man prays for, he prays |
Meditation 221 |
Twain, Mark |
Adam was but human |
Meditation 364 |
Twain, Mark |
All gods are better than their conduct |
Meditation 425 |
Twain, Mark |
Always acknowledge a fault. |
Meditation 117 |
Twain, Mark |
Always do right. |
Meditation 122 |
Twain, Mark |
Faith is believing what |
Meditation 301 |
Twain, Mark |
Few things are harder to put up with |
Meditation 622 |
Twain, Mark |
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament |
Meditation 349 |
Twain, Mark |
God's inhumanity to man |
Meditation 450 |
Twain, Mark |
God's noblest work? |
Meditation 401 |
Twain, Mark |
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented |
Meditation 635 |
Twain, Mark |
I cannot see how a man of any |
Meditation 301 |
Twain, Mark |
I find that the further I go back, |
Meditation 337 |
Twain, Mark |
I have no special regard for Satan |
Meditation 364 |
Twain, Mark |
If I were going to construct a God |
Meditation 505 |
Twain, Mark |
In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment |
Meditation 325 |
Twain, Mark |
In religion and in politics |
Meditation 526 |
Twain, Mark |
Irreverence is the champion of liberty |
Meditation 337 |
Twain, Mark |
It ain't the parts of the Bible |
Meditation 83 |
Twain, Mark |
It is best to read the weather forcast |
Meditation 180 |
Twain, Mark |
It is by the goodness of |
Meditation 579 |
Twain, Mark |
It is not best to use our morals weekdays |
Meditation 380 |
Twain, Mark |
Man is a Religious Animal. |
Meditation 180 |
Twain, Mark |
One of the proofs of the immortality |
Meditation 337 |
Twain, Mark |
Religion consists in a set of things |
Meditation 180 |
Twain, Mark |
Sometimes too much to drink |
Meditation 105 |
Twain, Mark |
Suppose you were an idiot |
Meditation 286 |
Twain, Mark |
The radical invents the views. |
Meditation 450 |
Twain, Mark |
The spirit of wrath |
Meditation 364 |
Twain, Mark |
There are many scapegoats for our sins |
Meditation 313 |
Twain, Mark |
There are those who scoff |
Meditation 325 |
Twain, Mark |
There is nothing more impressive |
Meditation 349 |
Twain, Mark |
To be good is noble, but |
Meditation 601 |
Twain, Mark |
True irreverence is disrespect for |
Meditation 364 |
Twain, Mark |
Under certain circumstances, profanity |
Meditation 275 |
Twain, Mark |
We all do no end of feeling and we mistake |
Meditation 484 |
Twain, Mark |
What God lacks is convictions |
Meditation 380 |
Twain, Mark |
When we remember that we are all |
Meditation 471 |
Tyrrell, John |
First prove to me, objectively |
Meditation 64 |
Tyrrell, John |
I enjoy life far too much to waste |
Meditation 122 |
Tyrrell, John |
If Christ is the answer |
Meditation 579 |
Tyrrell, John |
If this supposedly omniscient and perfect god |
Meditation 211 |
Tyrrell, John |
One person's blasphemy is another's |
Meditation 471 |
Tyrrell, John |
Over 10,000 religions |
Meditation 75 |
Tyrrell, John |
Seek only the truth; |
Meditation 221 |
Ustinov, Peter |
If you would be a real seeker after truth |
Meditation 526 |
Valery, Paul |
God made everything out of nothing |
Meditation 286 |
Vauvenargues |
People find happiness both in |
Meditation 122 |
Velikovsky, Immanuel |
Don't be afraid to face the facts |
Meditation 112 |
Venter, J Craig |
It's unequvocally clear that life begins |
Meditation 89 |
Vidal, Gore |
Once people get hung up on theology, |
Meditation 152 |
Vique |
A man without religion |
Meditation 112 |
Virgil |
Those who can make you believe absurdities |
Meditation 526 |
Vizinczey, Stephen |
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning |
Meditation 211 |
Voltaire |
A clergyman is one who feels |
Meditation 130 |
Voltaire |
A witty saying proves |
Meditation 471 |
Voltaire |
As long as people believe in absurdities |
Meditation 241 |
Voltaire |
Christianity is the most ridiculous |
Meditation 313 |
Voltaire |
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, |
Meditation 152 |
Voltaire |
Every sensible man, every honest man, |
Meditation 325 |
Voltaire |
God created sex. |
Meditation 170 |
Voltaire |
God is a comedian... |
Meditation 112 |
Voltaire |
I have never made but one prayer to God, |
Meditation 380 |
Voltaire |
Judge a man by |
Meditation 579 |
Voltaire |
One always begins with the simple |
Meditation 450 |
Voltaire |
The truths of religion are never so well understood |
Meditation 301 |
Voltaire |
Theological religion is the source of |
Meditation 325 |
von Goethe, Johann |
Woe to him who would ascribe |
Meditation 221 |
von Hayek, Friedrich |
By the age of fifteen, I had convinced myself |
Meditation 112 |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
How comforting and encouraging |
Meditation 122 |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
Say what you will about |
Meditation 96 |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
We humanists behave as well we can |
Meditation 622 |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
What the Gospels actually said was |
Meditation 89 |
Walker, Barbara G |
Faith in God necessarily implies |
Meditation 130 |
Wallace, Jr. WJ |
Religion to me is much like the story |
Meditation 251 |
Wallace, Jr. WJ |
The greatest threat presented by modern religion |
Meditation 201 |
Ward, William Arthur |
The pessimist complains about the wind, |
Meditation 122 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
A miracle is not an explanation of |
Meditation 601 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
Civilization has come about... |
Meditation 75 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
God cannot be put into the national Constitution |
Meditation 260 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
History shows that there is nothing so easy |
Meditation 221 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
If there were no ministers and no priests |
Meditation 201 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
If wisdom and diamonds... |
Meditation 83 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
No creed can be stretched to |
Meditation 180 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
No man ever yet tore down his altar |
Meditation 190 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
People who most rely on God |
Meditation 170 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
The cross everywhere is a dagger |
Meditation 484 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
The man who gets on his knees |
Meditation 130 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
The minister must take his pious grasp |
Meditation 301 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
The true man walks the earth |
Meditation 241 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
The truths which God revealed have been |
Meditation 251 |
Washburn, Lemuel K |
We must condemn Christianity... |
Meditation 142 |
Waters, John |
I thank God I was raised Catholic, |
Meditation 190 |
Waters, Roger |
By the cold and religious |
Meditation 241 |
Watson, James D |
One could not be a successful scientist |
Meditation 471 |
Watson, James D |
Today, evolution is an accepted fact for everyone |
Meditation 635 |
Weicker, Lowell |
The United States is not a Christian nation. |
Meditation 89 |
Weinberg, Steven |
The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday |
Meditation 635 |
Wells, HG |
Human history becomes more and more |
Meditation 579 |
Wells, HG |
There is no reason whatever to believe |
Meditation 364 |
Welsh, Nick |
Back when I was still a recovering Catholic, |
Meditation 526 |
White, Andrew Dickson |
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed |
Meditation 142 |
Whitehead, Alfred North |
A danger sign of the lapse from true skepticism |
Meditation 450 |
Whitehead, Alfred North |
Ideas won't keep. |
Meditation 601 |
Whitehead, Alfred North |
It is the business of the future |
Meditation 325 |
Whitehead, Alfred North |
People make the mistake of talking about |
Meditation 211 |
Whitehead, Alfred North |
Religion will not regain its old power |
Meditation 260 |
Wilde, Oscar |
I am not young enough |
Meditation 579 |
Wilde, Oscar |
I sometimes think that God, in creating |
Meditation 601 |
Wilde, Oscar |
Religion is a fashionable substitute |
Meditation 117 |
Wilde, Oscar |
Science is the record of dead religions. |
Meditation 260 |
Wilde, Oscar |
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, |
Meditation 152 |
Wilde, Oscar |
The great mystery of the world... |
Meditation 162 |
Williams, Henry A |
All fanaticism is a strategy |
Meditation 286 |
Wilson, A.N. |
We cannot hope for a society in which |
Meditation 251 |
Wilson, Colin |
Ridding oneself of this feeling that |
Meditation 505 |
Wright, Frank Lloyd |
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. |
Meditation 201 |
Zappa, Frank |
America was founded by the refuse of the |
Meditation 96 |
Zappa, Frank |
The essence of Christianity is told to us |
Meditation 401 |
Zola, Emil |
I believe that the future of mankind lies in |
Meditation 337 |
Zukav, Gary |
Acceptance without proof is |
Meditation 89 |