“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.” …
Publications
Bill Maher
“When I hear from people that religion doesn’t hurt anything, I say, really? Well besides wars, the Crusades, the Inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of …
Julian Barnes
“It is a bizarre thought that in this presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House, we might have a black man in the White House, …
Auguste Comte
“Our modern instinct condemns still more strongly a morality which proclaims that the benevolent sentiments are foreign to our nature; which so little understands the dignity of labor as to …
Edgar Allan Poe
“Let us begin, then, at once, with that merest of words, ‘Infinity.’ This, like ‘God,’ ‘spirit,’ and some other expressions of which the equivalents exist in all languages, is by …
A.A. Milne
“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the …
Montesquieu
“If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.” …
Peter Annet (Died)
Gilles Deleuze
“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” …