"Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose."
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"Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same."
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"With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator."
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"It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are."
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"I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
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"If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over."
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"I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life."
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"We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies."
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"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed."
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"Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy."
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"We use up words like 'spiritual' so fast in this culture. Twenty years ago spiritual had a distinct meaning. But now there's a lot of jack-off thinkers who just love to talk about the spiritual. And there is a lot of bogus - is bogosity a word? It should be - a lot of bogosity in these spiritual seekers. So you have to find another way to express it. I just call it 'how I fit'."
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"One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence."
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"It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods."
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"The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody."
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"Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative."
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"Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?"
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"And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father."
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"He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?"
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