Everybody wants spirituality. Nobody wants the truth.

When you renounce something, you're stuck to it forever.

Two kinds of fools - those who take religion literally, and those who think it has no value.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Men never do evil so cheerfully and completely as when they do it from religious conviction.

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Religion is the opium of the people.