Atheism Quotes · Page 60

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

— John Dewey

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

— Protagoras

Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

— Lucretius

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

— Albert Mohler

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

— William Blake

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

— Antonio Machado

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How can we consider ourselves to be rational and proclaim that God is ineffable—beyond our frail human abilities to comprehend him—and in…

— Brian Goedken

“Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is where faith is born—a seemingly abundant commodity certain…

— Justin Villanueva

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I…

— Mother Teresa

How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. [ Letter to William Bradford…

— James Madison

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of…

— Edgar Lee Masters

Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has…

— Mark Twain

The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost…

— Arthur Koestler

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency.…

— Richard P. Feynman

“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the…

— Paul Kurtz

A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble…

— Charles Darwin

“The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms…

— Anonymous

“...properly a theory about knowledge, not about religion. A theist and a Christian may be an agnostic; an atheist may not be…

— Robert Flint

“Religion suits everyone’s needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists”

— Daya Kudari

The principle applies here, help yourselves and Almighty God will not deny you his assistance.

— Adolf Hitler

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

— Bertrand Russell

“Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.”

— J.Adam Snyder

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

— Richard Pryor

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

— Walter F. Mondale

Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

— Thomas A. Edison

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

— Oliver Ellsworth

“The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them.”

— Eli Of Kittim

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

— George Sarton

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

— Albert Einstein

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it,…

— Chapman Cohen

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

— George Carlin

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar…

— Lucretius

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

— Anonymous

“I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer…

— Björk