Atheism Quotes

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

Revolutions never go backward.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.