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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It’s what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Religion is based … mainly upon fear … fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

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

You’re basically killing each other to see who’s got the better imaginary friend.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

I’m a born – again atheist.