"By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
Richard Dawkins
"God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we we still have to vanquish his shadow, too."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
Richard Dawkins
"Christianity is called the religion of pity."
Friedrich Niezsche
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
Richard Dawkins
"Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."
David Hume
"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."
Jean-Paul Satre
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."
Richard Dawkins
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."
Christopher Hitchens
"A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature … When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened"
David Hume
"Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?"
Friedrich Nietzsche