Atheism Quotes - Page 22

• All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

  Stendhal

  Atheist, Fear, Religion

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

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• Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, God, Death

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• There are a large number of people who can and do manage to lead decent upright lives with no use for a belief in God as a guide. Atheists do not care whether others believe as they do. They do ask, however, for the right to believe as they wish.

  Gordon Stein

  Atheist, Believe, Numbers

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• It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Ideas, Aries

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Prayer, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Atheist, Learning

  "The Two Types of Faith" by Greg Cootsona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Atheist, Prayer

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Sports, Atheist

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• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strength, Death, Spiritual

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

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• There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

  Augustus Hare

  Wings, Mind, Use

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• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Atheist, People

  "There is No God (And You Know It)" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2005.

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• The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

  George Herbert

  Atheist, Devil, Literature

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.186

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• What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Atheist

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• It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, God, Religious

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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• Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Propaganda, Program

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• If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Eye, Dark

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Reading, Men

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Secular Society

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Atheist, Philosophical

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• Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Death, God

  "Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Maxims and Arrows, 7, 1888.

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• He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

  George Orwell

  God, Atheist, Doe

  Down and Out in Paris and London ch. 30 (1933)

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• Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

  Blaise Pascal

  Atheist, Mind, Degrees

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Ideas, Watches, Popular Song

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