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  • #1
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #2
    Epicurus
    “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
    Epicurus

  • #3
    Sigmund Freud
    “In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”
    Sigmund Freud, Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939;

  • #4
    Voltaire
    “Let us cultivate our garden.”
    Voltaire, Candide

  • #5
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #6
    Sigmund Freud
    “Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.”
    Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

  • #7
    Christopher Hitchens
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    Christopher Hitchens

  • #8
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  • #9
    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
    "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
    "I don't much care where –"
    "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #11
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #12
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

  • #13
    Thomas Paine
    “Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie. ”
    Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

  • #14
    Sam Harris
    “Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that
    certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him.
    Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other
    over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything --
    anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous
    than the world we are living in. ”
    Sam Harris

  • #15
    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #16
    Henri Bergson
    “The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
    Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

  • #17
    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #18
    Lewis Carroll
    “Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #20
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #21
    “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
    Stephen Roberts

  • #22
    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

  • #23
    Blaise Pascal
    “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
    Blaise Pascal, Pensées

  • #24
    Epicurus
    “Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
    Epicurus

  • #25
    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #26
    Sigmund Freud
    “Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
    Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

  • #27
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    “The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

  • #28
    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

  • #29
    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    Voltaire

  • #30
    Bertrand Russell
    “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
    Bertrand Russell



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