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Atheist Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
- The last Christian died on a cross.
- The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow…
- Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief…
- He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance…
- A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance,…
- What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a…
- Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
- The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and…
- The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
- I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
- I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
- In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
- A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
- Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
- As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that…
- However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind…
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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
- 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