Atheistic Quotes

• Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  God, Religious, Atheist

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• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Voltaire

  God, Atheist, Religion

  Epitres no. 96, "A l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs" (1770) See Ovid 2

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• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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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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• I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

  John Adams

  Grief, Faith Religion, Historical

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. September 03, 1816.

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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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• Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents, wave succeeding wave in the Catholic church, from the Council of Nicea, and long before, to this day.

  John Adams

  Christian, Long, Miracle

  Thomas Jefferson, John Adams (2006). “"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values”

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• Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Believe, School

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• It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Atheist, Infidelity

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• With soap, baptism is a good thing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Baptism, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2079, Library of Alexandria

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• Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Fear, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.30, Publishdrive

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• The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Men, Religion

  1927 The Future of an Illusion.

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• In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Fear, Reality

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 16, 1888.

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• What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Humility

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.446, Princeton University Press

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• I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

  Jules Renard

  Funny, God, Sarcastic

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• Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• y feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Loneliness

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• Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Believe, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.402, Courier Corporation

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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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• Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

  Aristophanes

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  John Hookham Frere, Sir Bartle Frere, Aristophanes, Theognis (1872). “The Works of John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose”, p.70

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

  Baron d'Holbach

  Atheist, Ignorance, Atheism

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• For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  "Einstein 'God' letter to sell on eBay, with bidding starting at $3M", www.foxnews.com. October 4, 2012.

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• I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Catholic Religion, Atheism

  "Adolf Hitler". Book by John Toland, p. 507. Adolf Hitler in 1941 to General Gerhard Engel, 1992.

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• I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Believe, Religion

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.32, eKitap Projesi

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