Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
An atheist is merely someone who doesn't believe in god/s. Atheism matters to me because I see what religion does to people,… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Oxford scholar C. S. Lewis, an atheist turned believer, wrestles with the idea of hell in his book The Problem of Pain… — John Burke Copy Share Image
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“So, were every man on earth to become atheist, it could not affect God in any way. He is what He is… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the… — Steve Benson Copy Share Image
“I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“You don't understand that one can be an atheist, one can not know whether God exists or why, and at the same… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Atheists are spiritual slackers, right? We are the stoners of the cosmos. We think we’re all over-intelligent, free-thinking, free-spirited, uber-cool, hippy-dippy, science-minded,… — T.K. Decker Copy Share Image
“Atheists are in a difficult position. A lot of modern religion is progressive, ethical and socially responsible--not about "supernaturalism" or a tyrannical… — R. Joseph Hoffmann Copy Share Image
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000… — Trevor Treharne Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a… — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I will be in Orlando during the atheist convention to do my best to counter the assaults upon Christ of the atheists.… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
![“I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5c1/anonymous-1_atheist_i-just-took-my-cancer-diagnosis-as-bad-l_2963593.jpg)
