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Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the individual to free himself from the impositions of custom, governmental authority, economic pressures, and cultural inhibitions.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.

For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.