Atheist-philosophers Quote by Keith Parsons

“Sir Antony Flew was probably a deist. The deist is a rather curious figure in the atheist spectrum, for the fundamental reason that he…

— Bō Jinn

“[On David Hume] Although he never admitted to being an atheist as such, he was clearly and unquestionably the most vividly elegant skeptic of…

— Jonathan Miller

“...so profound an insight into God that for a century and a half he was branded a dangerous atheist...”

— Stephen Mitchell

There isn't [in new atheism]. Nothing that wasn't in Bertrand Russell or probably Robert Ingersoll. But I suppose it is more of a political…

— Richard Dawkins

We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested…

— Linus Pauling

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own…

— Charlie Chaplin

“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion…

— Leo Tolstoy

“ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as…

— Chapman Cohen

So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith.…

— Michel Faber

Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.

— Eric Metaxas