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If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion


Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
GONCOURT Atheism is less of an insult to God, than religion.
SANDEEP GOSWAMY Arguments for atheism can be divided into two main categories: those that dispute the existence of g...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that o...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the tr...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad pic...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but ...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness fir...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes con...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the la...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color
MARK SCHNITZIUS Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistak...
EMMETT F. FIELDS Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
BILL GAEDE God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, t...
FRANCIS BACON We generally see exposure of less than 10 percent of earnings if a strike lasted an entire quarter, ...
ED WOLFE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Atheism, the same than religion, can be cause of conviction or gregarism.
EZEQUIEL D'LEON MASIS Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced...
PENN JILLETTE If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this...
DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS The religious man will constantly look for the proof of Heaven and Hell; while the atheist man will ...
C. JOYBELL C. The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. ...
MARIA MONTESSORI It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of "crutch" for those who can't stand the reality of...
TOM STOPPARD Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
VANNA BONTA If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
STEVE ALLEN The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares no...
ERIC HOFFER There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god...
JOHN B. S. HALDANE A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism
DION FORTUNE There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If somet...
LUCIAN FREUD All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. I...
ULRICH BECK 'Noah' is an insult to Bible-believing Christians, an insult to the character of Noah and, m...
KEN HAM Complaining is an insult to God.
MONICA JOHNSON Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
WILHELM STEKEL And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or s...
ARTHUR H. CLOUGH There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he...
CYRIL CONNOLLY The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than th...
ANNIE BESANT And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or...
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or...
ARTHUR CLOUGH And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or...
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
ALBERT CAMUS When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delus...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not w...
EPICURUS If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Now he haunts me seldom: some fierce umbilical is broken,
I live with my own fragile hopes and ...
JAMES KAVANAUGH Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
DON HIRSCHBERG I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up o...
C.S. LEWIS If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There i...
MAHATMA GANDHI If you say your God is bigger than mine, than you just show your religion in the name of God.
VIKRANT PARSAI Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit ev...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it:...
TARSEM SINGH A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive...
ARISTOTLE ARISTOTLE A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive...
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JOSEPH GLANVILL The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, w...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it w...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfei...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the la...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the dec...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes con...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad pic...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness fir...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole a...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the tr...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that on...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit co...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin
EDMOND DE GONCOURT a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Ath...
ANNIE BESANT No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Ath...
ANNIE BESANT He is using this as a joke. This is an insult coming from him. Why he chose to focus on the Black Ca...
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FOUAD ALAOUI God as my witness, may He strike me down if this allegation is true.
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HAROLD J. DUARTE-BERNHARDT The key to playing a guy like Bradford is putting pressure on him. If you let him sit back there he'...
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In the on...
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with a voice that sti...
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It is nothing bu...
JULES VERNE On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth an...
JULES VERNE Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to it...
JULES VERNE An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
JULES RENARD Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw tw...
JULES VERNE The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cau...
JULES VERNE We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
JULES VERNE Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNE So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is th...
JULES VERNE We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, a...
JULES VERNE Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will...
JULES ORMONT There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
JULES ELLINGER Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.
JULES ELLINGER Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
JULES COMBARIEU I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.
JULES ASNER I hardly wear any makeup.
JULES ASNER I can't stand accessories.
JULES ASNER I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school....
JULES ASNER I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.
JULES ASNER It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good rea...
JULES VERNE Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the ...
JULES VERNE Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which prod...
JULES VERNE How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the...
JULES VERNE When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their ch...
JULES VERNE In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
JULES VERNE I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations ...
JULES MASSENET With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
JULES VERNE