Tina

“This is what I meant when I said the atheistic worldview requires intellectual courage. It requires moral courage, too. As an atheist, you abandon your imaginary friend, you forgo the comforting props of a celestial father figure to bail you out of trouble. You are going to die, and you’ll never see your dead loved ones again. There’s no holy book to tell you what to do, tell you what’s right or wrong. You are an intellectual adult. You must face up to life, to moral decisions. But there is dignity in that grown-up courage. You stand tall and face into the keen wind of reality.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution

“In this connection we might ask how God can be moral or good unless he believes in some Being superior to himself?”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll (Vol. 1-12): Complete Edition

“Unfortunately, the present system of education is making us subservient, mechanical, and deeply thoughtless; though it awakens us intellectually, inwardly it leaves us incomplete, stultified, and uncreative. Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education is not to produce mere scholars, technicians, and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti – A Spiritual Guide for Independent Seekers on Meditation, Truth, and Peace

“People don't change, their situations change. My circumstances can improve or grow worse but it's always myself in the midst of them, unchanged in my private essence.”
― Eugène Ionesco