Atheism Quotes · Page 175

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the…

— Robert Burns

“[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.”

— George H. Smith

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

— Thomas Jefferson

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

— Muhammad Naguib

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

— Isaac Asimov

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

— Albert Einstein

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people…

— Thomas Nagel

The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…

— H. L. Mencken

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances…

— H. G. Wells

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

— Bertrand Russell

If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on…

— Denis Diderot

It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.

— Paul Watzlawick

In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is…

— Justin Martyr

“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

— Mary, Queen of Scots

Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception…

— Ayn Rand

The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest…

— Richard Dawkins

“The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist,' meaning the…

— Scott Klusendorf

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems…

— Natalie Angier

Do I believe? God only knows.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

— John Milton

There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.

— Jack Balkin