Atheism Quotes

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.

The Supernatural is only the Natural disclosed.

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.

The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

I'm a born - again atheist.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

... inventions and purely human institutions.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

Yes, I do not like people saying that atheism is based on science, because it's not. It's an alien invasion of science.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.

I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

All Gods were immortal.

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.