Category Archives: Thinking

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Anglo-Irish genius

You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott (b. 1954), American writer

Organized religion: The world’s largest pyramid scheme. Sir Bernard Katz, 1911-2003, biophysicist

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from [ancient] Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis, 1859-1939, British physician

Sacred things are simply collective ideals that have fixed themselves on material objects. Emile Durkheim, 1858-1917, French philosopher

I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds. Lucy Colman, 1817-1906, American suffragette and abolitionist