Atheism Quotes
1894 Atheism quotes by 757 unique authors
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More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.
— Martin Lings
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Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey…
— Hugh Ross
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As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal,…
— Joseph John Thomson
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There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and power: through music…
— Ernst Boris Chain
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It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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There are many gods which Christians reject. I just believe in one less god then they do. The reasons that you might give for your…
— Dan Barker
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Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening…
— Luther Burbank
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The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to…
— Luther Burbank
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Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce…
— Luther Burbank
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I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.
— Jewel
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Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an…
— Luther Burbank
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Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts
— Saint Peter
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Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation…
— Janna Levin
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The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and…
— Henry Adams
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The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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Nonbelievers are not anti-religious, they are anti-fraud and anti-deception.
— Steve Fowler
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Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom')…
— Criss Jami
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Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality,…
— Frances Wright
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Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
— Honore de Balzac
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Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
— Madame de Stael
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Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart…
— James Anthony Froude
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The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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