Atheism Quotes

We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.

How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Love has no value in the absence of truth.

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.

This is why I respect those who are curious about God, but I beware of those who claim to find Him.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.