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Atheism Quotes by Albert Einstein
- My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
- I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be…
- The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by…
- From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
- I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
- For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
- If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work;…
- The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize…
- The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.
- Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.
- The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the…
- The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
- You accept the historical Jesus?
- There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of…
- e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual…
- True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
- You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
- It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some…
More Atheism Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison
- I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope. — Danny Boyle
- O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have… — Robert Anton Wilson
- When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not… — Benjamin Franklin
- Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis… — Benjamin Franklin