“The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.” …
Publications
Joan Konner
“I see myself as a journalist if anything. I don’t call myself an agnostic but I do recognize that I will never know.” …
Grant Allen
“[T]he vast mass of existing gods or divine persons, when we come to analyze them, do actually turn out to be dead and deified human beings. … I believe that …
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
LUKE FORD: “Tell me about you and God.” REBECCA GOLDSTEIN: “I lived Orthodox for a long time. … I was torn like a character in a Russian novel. It lasted through …
W.E.B. Du Bois
“My ‘morals’ were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time of graduation I was still a ‘believer’ in …
S.E. Cupp
“I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?” …
Arthur Schopenhauer
“For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it’s dark. A certain amount of general ignorance is the condition of all religions, the element in which …
Josephine K. Henry
“Is not the Church today a masculine hierarchy, with a female constituency, which holds woman in Bible lands in silence and in subjection? No institution in modern civilization is so …
James Russell Lowell
“Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.” …
