Atheist Quotes
1309 quotes by 672 authors
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider…
— Aristotle
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
— Aristotle
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
— Francis Bacon
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
— Douglas Adams
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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
— Edward Abbey
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still…
— John Adams
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
— Joseph Addison
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
— Annie Besant
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest…
— Jack Black
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My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was…
— Tony Blair
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
— Derek Bok
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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All religions have been made by men.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me.…
— David Bowie
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I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
— Danny Boyle
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