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Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

Every one starts out being an atheist.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.

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

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.

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.

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

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

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.

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

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?

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

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