Atheism Quotes

1894 Atheism quotes by 757 unique authors

There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population… — Bertrand Russell
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in… — C.S. Lewis
Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God. — Walter Martin
We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by… — William Temple
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… — Albert Einstein
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… — Albert Einstein
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. — Richard Dawkins
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. — Richard Dawkins
I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. — Richard Dawkins
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite… — Leo Tolstoy
And the cause of everything is that which we call God. — Leo Tolstoy
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the… — Charles Darwin
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is… — Charles Darwin
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of… — Charles Darwin
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all… — Charles Darwin
... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and… — David Hume
To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected… — David Hume
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of… — Charles Darwin
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is… — Charles Darwin
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this… — Aldous Huxley
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us.… — Henry David Thoreau
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are… — Mikhail Gorbachev
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain… — Sigmund Freud

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