“You know the saying ‘there’s no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole?’ Well, there’s no such thing as a vegetarian… — Steven Konkoly Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years… — Moby Copy Share Image
We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist… — William Temple Copy Share Image
“My priority is not to be called an atheist or believer, but to be human. My priority is not to peddle any… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
“By the very notion that God does not exist an atheist embodies the idea of a supreme being by pondering the very… — Tom Hamilton Copy Share Image
Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It's fantastic to believe, because they get so many benefits. I get mad at the atheist community when they put down believers… — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist'… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in… — Lisa Williams Copy Share Image
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
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