Atheist Quotes - Page 26

• I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

  John E. Jones III

  Agnostic, Divine, Force

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• Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Death, Believe, Dying

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• Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

  Heywood Broun

  If There Is A God, Religion, Atheism

  "Collected Edition of Heywood Broun". Book by Heywood Broun (p. 26), 1941.

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• Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

  Francis Bacon

  Heart, Men, Atheism

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1996). “The Major Works”, p.371, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Men, Honorable Man

  "L'examen important de Milord Bolingbroke écrit sur la fin de 1736". Book by Voltaire. Conclusion, 1736.

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• As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

  John Adams

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Self, Ideas, Molecules

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• The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Francis Bacon (1873). “The Essays of Lord Bacon”, p.65

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• The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

  Voltaire

  Evil, Atheism, Able

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• Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

  William Temple

  Knowing, Christianity, Found

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Art, Philosophy, Believe

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• Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

  John Gray

  Beach, Today, Secular

  "The atheist delusion" by John Gray, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• By night an atheist half-believes in God.

  Edward Young

  God, Believe, Night

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 5' l. 176

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• Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.

  William Henry Drummond

  Eye, Men, Sometimes

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• England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

  Voltaire

  Two, Religion, Atheism

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• There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Light, Miracle

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.54

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• I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.

  John Adams

  Believe, Fate, Men

  Letter to F. A. Van der Kemp, February 16, 1808.

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• The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

  Sam Harris

  Reality, Fantasy, Neighbor

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

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• God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. The New Atheists became the new Islamophobes, their invectives against Muslims resembling the rowdy, uneducated ramblings of backwoods racists rather than appraisals based on intellect, rationality and reason. "Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.

  Sam Harris

  Xenophobia, Practice, Afterlife

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• Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

  John Adams

  Jesus, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Diary of John Adams, www.beliefnet.com. February 13, 1756.

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• Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Hypocrite

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• Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.

  Steve Allen

  Gratitude, Religious, Dark

  Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”

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• A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

  Voltaire

  Men, Deities

  Voltaire (1769). “Letters addressed to his Highness the Prince of *****, containing comments on the writings of the most eminent authors, who have been accused of attacking the Christian Religion”, p.51

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• Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Men, Agnostic

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.142, Penguin

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• To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious beauties and is capable of profound and impressive interpretations. What is deeply objectionable about most of these interpretations is that they allow the believer to say Yes while evading any No.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Profound, Surprise, Sophisticated

  "The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, 1959.

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