Atheism Quotes

Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts.

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 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.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.

Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

You know, people always talk about how Jesus came down to Earth as a human being. He became a human being, But no one ever takes into account what that means.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.

A mere society form of Atheism.

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

I think it's a bit excessive.

It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.

I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

... reason accepts no commandments.

If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.

Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.

At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.