The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“The reason why God doesn't show his face is because he stands behind a wall that can be broken.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“A good psychologist will take already-traumatic events in your life and work with you to contextualize them as non-traumatic. A bad psychologist… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
“Atheism rises above creeds and puts Humanity upon one plane. There can be no 'chosen people' in the Atheist philosophy. There are… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“No, not at all. I’m an atheist. You could say that I’m agnostic, but that’s just a certain kind of atheist (laughs).… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism,… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
“There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called… — Tom Quinn Copy Share Image
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“When you consider atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, their strongest arguments are “moral arguments” against… — Taylor R. Marshall Copy Share Image
“We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could… — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
“...the priests of all these cults, the singers, shouters, prayers and exhorters of Bootstrap-lifting have as their distinguishing characteristic that they do… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
![“What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that God. They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an…” quote by Stephen Hawking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/46a/stephen-hawking-389_atheism_what-could-define-god-is-thinking-of-god_2982254.jpg)
