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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
Atheism

"Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue."

Powerful Atheism Garden
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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
Atheism

"Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith ; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong."

Faith Atheism Atheist
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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
Atheism

"Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed."

Important Atheism Indulge In
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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
Atheism

"It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived."

Book Father Atheism
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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
Atheism

"The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious."

Religious Atheism Doubters
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Lincoln Steffens Journalist
Atheism

"We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms."

Believe Atheism Forget
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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer
Atheism

"... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers."

Names Atheism Atheist
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Atheism

"Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it."

Support Religion Atheism
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