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“My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.”

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Emile M. Cioran was a Romanian-born French philosopher known for his pessimistic and existentialist views. His works deeply explored the essence of human existence, suffering, and nihilism. more

“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.”

Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

“Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.”

World Atheism Positive Atheism Active Conquer Powerless Contemplative Conquer The World

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“We don't need a constitutional amendment for kids to pray.”

Needs Kids Atheism Praying Positive Atheism Amendments Constitutional Amendments

Author:William J. Clinton

“I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.”

People Light Law Suffering Difficult Atheism Tasks Agree Positive Atheism Educated Priests Amusement Corn Denominations Difficult Tasks

Author:Richard Cobden

“The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.”

World Believe Millions Atheism Crap Better Place Evaporation

Author:Andrei Codrescu

“The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world to enter upon a crusade against Atheism. The stage in which heresy meant little more than all exchange of one god for another has passed. It has become a case of acceptance or rejection of the idea of God, and the growth is with those who reject.”

World Littles Ideas Growth Religious Numbers Cases Growing Atheism Stage Acceptance Atheist Positive Atheism Rejection Rejects Heresy Defenders Crusades

Author:Chapman Cohen

“Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.”

Belief Atheism Late Positive Atheism Absence Phenomenon Belief In God

Author:Chapman Cohen

“We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.”

Knows World Universe Existence Atheism

Author:Chapman Cohen

“But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.”

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Author:Chapman Cohen

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