I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. (Bill Gates)

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. (Dalai Lama)

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. (Albert Einstein)

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. (Jonathan Swift)

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. (Sigmund Freud)

If God did not exist it would be necessary for us to invent Him. (Voltaire)

God has no religion (Gandhi)

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. (Richard Dawkins)

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. (Seneca)

Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion – several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven.(Mark Twain)

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. (Dalai Lama)

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t. (George Bernard Shaw)

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)