Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Diderot

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.

Jonathon Miller

I didn't know I had a quarrel with him.

Henry Thoreau

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

David Hume

No creed can be stretched to the size of truth; no church can be made as large as man.

Lemuel K. Washburn

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Douglas Adams

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.

Tony Kushner

Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief.

Oscar Wilde

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Richard Burton

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

Petronius Arbiter

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom.