Atheism Quotes

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.

Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

Who knows most, doubts most.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.

If nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do

"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.