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Atheist Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a…
- I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian…
- An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there…
- I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in…
- Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those…
- As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because…
- A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence…
More Atheist Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
- Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of… — Douglas Adams
- Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison
- No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
- Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
- I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me… — Jack Black
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family… — Tony Blair