Atheism Quotes

Atheism is the last word of theism

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism is my opinion.

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

Progress is a comfortable disease.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Help yourself, then God will also help you!

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed.

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

We created god in our own image and likeness!

The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.

Whatever you have to do to have a good time, let's get on with it, so long as it doesn't cause a murder.

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

I don't believe in God. I believe in man -- in his strength, his possibilities, and his reason.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.