I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
Flannery O'ConnorWhen once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart.
{Letter to John Adams, from Monticello, 15 August 1820}
Tags: reason atheism angels creed materialism adams john-adams tracy antoine-destutt-de-tracy antoine-louis-claude-destutt comte-de-tracy dugald-stewart john-locke john-stewart-mill locke stewart
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas AquinasTags: faith atheism agnosticism aquinas
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.
William A. DembskiTags: atheism deism naturalism darwinism naturalism-as-science theism
Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.
Mark TwainTags: inspirational atheism
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: belief christianity faith atheism russia
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
Alan W. WattsThe finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.
John Lothrop MotleyTags: reason god atheism divinity the-soul the-universe
Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.'
Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.)
Tags: humor science atheism universe naturalism astronomy napoleon napoleon-bonaparte napoleon-the-great
Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the idiotic sneer that such principles are 'fashionable,' it is always the ideas of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity that stand in need of reaffirmation.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics religion atheism albert-einstein secularism libertarianism internationalism social-class
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