Unbelief

“All we have gained then by our unbeliefWe called the chessboard white,— we call it black.”

“The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.”

“Fear, fear, she's the mother of violence”

“Unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia.”

“Anti-clericalism and non-belief have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.”

“The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.”

“Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln's tombstone: "He died an unbeliever."”

“Perhaps unbelievers do not so much reject the religious needs and impulses of the human race as adapt to them in realistic and humanistic terms, replacing the fairy tales of conventional religion with the more intellectually demanding tales, provided by modern science, of natural laws and of the demonstrable, replicable evidence of cause-and-effect relationships.”

“There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.”

“With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.”

“There is no stretch in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.”

“To choose unbelief is to choose mind over dogma, to trust in our humanity instead of all these dangerous divinities.”

“I'm from Missouri; you must show me.”