Atheism Quotes - Page 10

• Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

  Epicurus

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Omnipotence

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• The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Philosophy, Real

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Real, Love You

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• The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

  Joseph Stalin

  Division, Pope, Positive Atheism

  Quoted in Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm (1948)

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• Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Atheist, Honesty, Thinking

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• The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Atheist, Fear

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• Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Soul, Religion

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.40, Princeton University Press

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• The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Attitude, Reality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Motivational, Song, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.480, Da Capo Press

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• It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.

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• I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Religion, Harm

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Morning, Atheist

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.94, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

  Stephen Hawking

  Atheist, Order, Law

  "Leaping the Abyss". Interview with Gregory Benford, reason.com. April 2002.

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• I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheist, Science, Years

  Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.

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• Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

  Jesse Ventura

  Atheist, Numbers, People

  Jesse Ventura (2008). “Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!: From the Minnesota Governor's Mansion to the Baja Outback : Reflections and Revisionings”, Skyhorse Publishing Company Incorporated

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• No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

  George H. W. Bush

  Atheist, Hatred, Scary

  Campaign press conference at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, August 27, 1987.

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• All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Atheist, Ignorance, Superstitions

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• Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior.

  Theodore Beale

  Atheist, Self, Religion

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• By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Atheist, Believe, Simple

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• If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.

  Dave Barry

  Atheist, Humanity, Religion

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

  Steve Buscemi

  Religious, Atheist, Eye

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• We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Christian, Atheist, Struggle

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• Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Strong, Atheist, Philosophy

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• I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.11, Broadway Books

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