Douglas Adams Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

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  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Religious

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

• I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

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  Atheist, Intelligent, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

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  Reality, Afterlife, Religion

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

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  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

• God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.104, Del Rey

• "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing."
  "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D."
  "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Men, Giving

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1979.

• The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

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  Airports, People, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

• The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

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  Eye, Light, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.732, Del Rey

• If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

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  People, Religion, Atheism

• If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'

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  Moving, Party, Hands

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.137, Del Rey

• What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

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  Airports, Two, Atheism

  The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ch. 6 (1988)

• People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Thinking, Hair

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.103, Del Rey

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