Clarence Darrow Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Death, Mother, Atheist

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925

• Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, Laughing, Religion

  Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.

• I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Life, Ignorance

• In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Support, Religion

• I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mother, Atheist, Believe

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

• An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

  Clarence Darrow

  Religious, Doubt, Atheism

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

• If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.

  Clarence Darrow

  Character, Independent, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

• I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

  Clarence Darrow

  Home, Men, Atheism

  Clarence Darrow (2013). “In the Clutches of the Law: Clarence Darrow's Letters”, p.465, Univ of California Press

• When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.

  Clarence Darrow

  Book, Teaching, Men

  "Why I Am an Agnostic: Including Expressions of Faith from a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1929.

• A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mind, Atheism, Body

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

• Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

  Clarence Darrow

  Humorous, Atheism, Serious

• ...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Fear, Believe

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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