If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the State, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.
Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.
I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
A scenario is suggested by which the universe and its laws could have arisen naturally from nothing. Current cosmology suggests that no laws of physics were violated in bringing the universe into existence. The laws of physics themselves are shown to correspond to what one would expect if the universe appeared from nothing. There is something rather than nothing because something is more stable.
Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.
We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.
It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.
Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.
Enthusiasm is contagious - so is a lack of it. Joyless Christians are a greater assault on the gospel than atheism.
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
