Atheist Quotes

1309 Atheist quotes by 656 unique authors

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… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him… — Jon Krakauer
Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and… — Brian Williams
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have… — Jeff Schweitzer
At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a… — Leo Tolstoy
After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house… — Sarah Vowell
[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on… — Baron d'Holbach
Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire. — Albert Camus
In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God… — Will Schwalbe
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day… — Christopher Hitchens
You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not… — Terry Pratchett
But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating,… — Juhani Peltonen
Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point… — Melanie Phillips
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no… — Alain de Botton
He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but… — Bruce Robinson
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings… — Alain de Botton
But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon… — Carson McCullers
Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself? — Saint Augustine
But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability… — Michael Coren
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the… — E. M. Forster
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to… — Alain de Botton

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