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Rationalist
Quotes Sampler
Mondar
M. M. A. NOVO
Challenge by contradiction and
accept through elimination. (Majlish Guru)
Ideas imbued with
truth, in all ages, face intractable obstruction due largely to obsession with
rounded up conjecture and unfounded but popularly believed messages. However,
truth shall be revealed and shall survive all through. New ideology and
truth-based conjugated concept is usually unpalatable to people who are
surmounted by preconceptions, prejudices and ritual bound bigotry but remains
ever glowing.
(Majlish Guru)
Miracles are things
that cannot be explained with current knowledge. (currently available
knowledge and also something could be apparently miraculous because relevant
information is hidden.) (Majlish Guru)
Great
spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter
cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary
prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. (Albert
Einstein)
It was, of course, a lie what you
read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically
repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but
have expressed it clearly. – (Albert
Einstein)
I do not believe that a man
should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after
death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded
after he dies. (Albert
Einstein)
All Bibles are man-made. (Thomas
Alva Edison)
I do not believe that any type of
religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the
United
States
.
(Thomas Alva Edison)
Virgin birth: an oxymoron on
which an entire religion was formed. (Marquis De Sade: Quills Movie)
"The world holds two classes
of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without
intelligence." - Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri
The myths about Hades and the
gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
(Diodorus Siculus, about 20 B.C.)
Either God wants to abolish evil,
and cannot; Or he can, but does not want to; Or he cannot and does not want
to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want
to, he is wicked. But, if God both can and wants to abolish evil, Then how
come evil in the world? (Epicurus, 350-270 BC?)
"I
don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose." - Clarence
Darrow
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just
believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all
the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - -
Stephen Roberts
God:
The imaginary friend that adults need and can have. (NOVO)
Satan: The imaginary
all purpose, ever ready, convenient scapegoat for the pious. (NOVO)
Religion:
Unthinking, obsessive and ostentatious practice of beliefs through sterile
rituals. (NOVO)
Reality is not a slave to your belief. (NOVO)
When faced with the chasm of unfamiliarity or uncertainty, I would rather
build a bridge of reason than take a leap of faith. (NOVO)
Religion is the first refuge of
the truly ignorant! (NOVO, twisting Spock’s, “Profanity is the last refuge
of the truly ignorant.)
Pray,
n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single
petitioner confessedly unworthy. (Ambrose Bierce)
Saint:
A dead sinner revised and edited. (Ambrose Bierce)
Geology
shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil
sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows
biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that
threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeeezing one's eyes
shut and wailing "does not!". (Dr.Pepper)
When I look upon seamen, men of
science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon
priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. (Diogenes)
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