Famous Quotes - Tags - Atheism

  • ... a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. When our... More
  • ... the God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men’s minds is far from being the same from... More
  • A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s... More
  • Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and... More
  • Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual... More
  • An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods,... More
  • An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. More
  • An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. More
  • An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian... More
  • And as for the unbelievers,
    their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain
    which the man... More
  • Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. More
  • Atheism..., that bugbear of women and fools, is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It... More
  • But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear... More
  • But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance] ... do absolutely make God to be nothing... More
  • During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it. More
  • First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason,... More
  • Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place,
    (Portentous sight!) the owlet... More
  • Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the... More
  • He has not yet found the place where I contradict either the existence, or infiniteness, or... More
  • He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be... More
  • He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as... More
  • Here we are, we’re alone in the universe, there’s no God, it just seems that it all began by... More
  • I am a daylight atheist. More
  • I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pester’d the... More
  • I can’t believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it... More
  • I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for... More
  • I had a strong curiosity to be satisfied if he persisted in disbelieving a future state even when... More
  • I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that... More
  • If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism—at... More
  • If you don’t believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.... Decency is very good.... More
  • Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world. More
  • It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy,... More
  • It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack... More
  • My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday’s washing-up... More
  • No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve. More
  • Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we... More
  • Precisely this is godliness—that there are gods, but no God. More
  • The abdication of Belief
    Makes the Behavior small—
    Better an ignis fatuus
    Than no... More
  • The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. More
  • The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is... More
  • The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. More
  • There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. More
  • Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the... More
  • Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in... More
  • We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against... More
  • What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of... More
  • What you don’t understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know... More
  • You even throw like an atheist. More
  • “There is no God,” the wicked saith,
    “And truly it’s a blessing,
    For what he... More

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