There Is No God Quotes - Page 6

• In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Selfish, Brave, Soul

  Frederick William Robertson (1850). “An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library”, p.13

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• There is no God dare wrong a worm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Worms, Dare

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.284, Library of America

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• If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Doors, Hopes Up, Hereafter

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

  Rodney Stark

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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• To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by Locke, Tracy, and Stewart. At what age of the Christian church this heresy of immaterialism, this masked atheism, crept in, I do not know. But heresy it certainly is.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1932, Library of America

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• There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

  Marquis de Sade

  Wise, Nature, Atheism

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• This I believe: I believe there is no God.

  Penn Jillette

  Believe, I Believe, This I Believe

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition", "This I Believe" special series, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• I'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all going to die, that is the end of all consciousness. There is no afterlife. There is no God. Now what do we do.' That's the point where it starts getting interesting to me.

  David Cronenberg

  Afterlife, Interesting, Forever

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• If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Lying, Years

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• There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.

  John Dewey

  Education, Law, Soul

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• If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

  Art Hoppe

  God, Humorous, Profound

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• If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.56, Penguin

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• There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

  Walt Whitman

  Divine

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?

  Sharon Shinn

  Makeup, Grieving, Grace

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• Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

  Stephen King

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.1174, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not agnostic. I am atheist. I don’t think there is no God; I know there’s no God. I know there’s no God the same way I know many other laws in our universe. I know there’s no God and I know most of the world knows that as well. They just won’t admit it because there’s another thing they know. They know they’re going to die and it freaks them out. So most people don’t have the courage to admit there’s no God and they know it. They feel it. They try to suppress it. And if you bring it up they get angry because it freaks them out.

  Adam Carolla

  Atheist, Thinking, Law

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• If there is no God for thee Then there is no God for me.

  Anna Hempstead Branch

  Dog, Animal, Thee

  Anna Hempstead Branch (1929). “Sonnets from a Lock Box: And Other Poems”

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• We have a responsibility toward the other life-forms of our planet whose continued existence is threatened by the thoughtless behavior of our own human species. . . . Environmental responsibility – for if there is no God, then, obviously, it is up to us to put things right.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Environmental, Behavior

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Liberty, Comfort

  Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr, founders.archives.gov. August 10, 1787.

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• But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sex, Wall, Women

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Men, Serious

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.1149, Simon and Schuster

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• You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Lying, Ideas

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• Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Mean, Wool

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4186, Delphi Classics

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• There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Existentialism, Human Nature, Humans

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.164, Open Road Media

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