Absurdity Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men…

— Michel de Montaigne

“being an atheist required more belief than he had, a kind of determined certainty about mystery that he didn’t think was feasible or possible,…

— Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who feeling inhimself…

— David Hume

“He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a…

— George Orwell

“[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

“I would not have described myself as a committed atheist for whom all spirituality was nonsense, but as an agnostic in whom large areas…

— Jennifer Worth

“Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward…

— Sir Francis Bacon

“To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“As on enquiring agnostic one seeks, not the smugness of atheism, not the blindness of idolatry - nor even the complacency of established religion…

— Andrew Ashdown

“Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts”

— Clive Barker

“The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of scepticism in the intellectual who takes no active…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“An honest and self-aware atheism, therefore, should proudly recognize itself as the quintessential expression of heroic irrationalism:”

— David Bentley Hart