"A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion."
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"The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods."
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"Progress is a comfortable disease."
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"There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer."
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"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."
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"God is only a great imaginative experience."
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"Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you."
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"If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him."
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"God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous"
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"There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power."
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"A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods."
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"God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion."
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"Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one."
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"God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays."
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"Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?"
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"Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so."
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"[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals."
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"Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history."
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"If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God."
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"Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete."
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