Atheism & Naturalistic Philosophy

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.”

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”

“Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.”

“He who humbleth himself wants to be exalted.”

“Compulsory bad taste isn’t a good cultural sign either.”

“I'm not clever enough to be a physicist.”

“Distance is a great promoter of admiration!”

“To eat is to appropriate by destruction.”

“Change is one thing, progress is another.”

“I do not choose to choose what I choose.”

“Nam cupide conculcatur nimis ante metutum.”

“An art thief is a man who takes pictures.”

“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.”

“Morality is herd instinct in the individual.”

“No, no...that is what our minds demand. We look for patterns”

“Who (apart from the pig) is damaged by bacon?”

“Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.”

“It is too early to love. We will buy the right to do so by shedding blood.”

“We need a science to save us from science.”

“If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?”

“Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus umquam.”

“Here's some bumper stickers I'd like to see:”

“Nearly allied to justice are the virtues of beneficence, compassion, gratitude, piety, and friendship.”

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.”

“Mitochondrial DNA is blessedly celibate. (p.53)”

“The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.”

“Anti-Semitism, in a word, is fear of man’s fate. The anti-Semite is the man who wants to be a pitiless stone, a furious torrent, devastating lightning: in short, anything but a man.”