Atheist Quotes - Page 37

• The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

  William Osler

  Spiritual, Learning, Ignorance

  Montreal Medical Journal Sept. 1902, p. 696

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• Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

  Camille Paglia

  Spiritual, Believe, Raised

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• Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Religious, Religion

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  When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Death, Forgiveness

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• I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

  Jodi Picoult

  Spiritual, Believe, Kids

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• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  Karl Pilkington

  Religious, People, Criminals

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.96, Canongate Books

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• I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  People, Atheism, Relaxed

  "Daniel Radcliffe: a cool nerd" by Anita Singh, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 4, 2009.

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• The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Real, Order, Challenges

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• Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

  Christopher Reeve

  Life, Believe, Atheism

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• Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Criticism, Change Is Good

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Christian, Enemy

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Littles, Faces

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.219, Routledge

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• The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

  George Santayana

  Religious, Inspiration, Wonderful

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• A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Christian, Thinking, Communist

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• I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Work, Thinking, Original Thought

  Have His Carcase ch. 4 (1932)

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• I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Running, Believe, Long

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Humor, Insightful

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• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Fear, Religion

  "The New York Times", December 3, 1978.

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• God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

  Stendhal

  Doe, Superstitions, Belief

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• I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

  Paul Tillich

  Speak, Embarrassment

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

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• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, God

  Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

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• If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

  Voltaire

  God, Religious, Human Nature

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• The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

  Rick Warren

  Europe, Numbers, Manhattan

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• Belief is the death of intelligence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Believe, Intelligence

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

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