“Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.”

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the false to achieve primacy over the facts.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ or ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody’s beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling–it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

How we pay attention to the present moment…determin es the character of our experience and…the quality of our lives.

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

See with the eyes of love / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.

And how they kist each other’s tremulous eyes.

All things are beautiful seen through the eyes of love.

She had perfect features, with her eye, nose, lips, and ears the right size and in right places. That is all it takes to make people beautiful, normal body parts – yet why does nature mess it up so many times?

Look at the world with the vision of peace, love, and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.

Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.

Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognise the One behind the many.