[A]ny being with thesupposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

The world holds two classes of men--intelligent men without religion, and religious men withoutintelligence.poet

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist!

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.