Atheist Quotes - Page 21

• ... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

  Jonathan Swift

  Names, Atheism, Thinker

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.56

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.

  Linus Torvalds

  Religious, Appreciation, Thinking

  Interview with Marjorie Richardson, www.linuxjournal.com. November 1, 1999.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god, or who owns no being superior to nature. It is compounded of the two terms ... signifying without God.

  Richard Watson

  Believe, Two, Atheism

  Richard Watson (1832). “A Biblical and theological dictionary”, p.113

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

  Steven Weinberg

  Atheism, Care, Scientist

  10 Copy quote

• I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.

  Immortal Technique

  Christian, White, People

  "The Transcendence Of Hip Hop - An Interview With Immortal Technique". Interview with Chris Grosso, theindiespiritualist.com. February 20, 2014.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I think religion does a lot for us but I can't quite believe it, alas... It's just a personal choice. I love the idea of heaven though. Who doesn't? It's lovely.

  Paul Bettany

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.

  Carl Reiner

  Hurt, Men, Needs

  19 Copy quote

• I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.

  Ricky Gervais

  Religious, Feelings, Living My Life

  "Office Ricky's not in it for fame". Daily Mirror Interview, www.rickygervais.com. November 15, 2004.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Omen is one of my favorites. Even though I'm an atheist now, I was brought up Catholic and can remember thinking that it could actually be real! The first Dawn of the Dead is a great one. We had a TV serial in Britain called Day of the Triffids and that was always really terrifying for me as well.

  Nick Frost

  Real, Thinking, Catholic

  4 Copy quote

• I just became a stronger agnostic, and then I started to realize that everyone who was saying they were agnostic really hadn't thought about it that much. Still, I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist -- being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

  Julia Sweeney

  Long, Stronger, Sticks

  "FINDING MY RELIGION / Julia Sweeney talks about how she became an atheist" by David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2005.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

  John Dryden

  Vices, Triumph, Virtue

  John Dryden (1998). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI: Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and The Secular Masque and Other Contributions to The Pilgrim”, p.145, Univ of California Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Mind, Problem, Ifs

  "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck". The Saturday Evening Post, p. 17, October 26, 1929.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Religious, Kissing, Simple

  4 Copy quote

• Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Atheism, Way

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.87

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

  Ouida

  Death, Oblivion, Poet

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.92, Ouida

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Chance, Advantage

  4 Copy quote

• The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

  Hugh Miller

  Men, Hands, Atheism

  6 Copy quote

• Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.

  George Herbert

  War, France, Witch

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  God, Ideas, Deny

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.307

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

  Blaise Pascal

  Soul, Doubt, Atheism

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.226

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Christian, Atheism, Teach

  4 Copy quote

• Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.

  Francis Quarles

  Philosophy, Journey, Safe

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.89

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at this rate one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good-humor; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward.

  Jeremy Collier

  Encouragement, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• I happen to be a devout atheist. I don't believe in God. I still go to church -- I'm not a heathen. I go to an atheist church. We have crippled guys who stand up and testify that they were crippled, and they still are.

  Paula Poundstone

  Believe, Guy, Church

  5 Copy quote

• I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Fighting, Atheism

  4 Copy quote