Quotes about atheism
atheism unhappy balance
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem. Bertrand Russell
atheism speak precaution
It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.
atheism lasts rate
Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. Charles Darwin
atheism murder confessing
It is like confessing to a murder.
atheism intellect affirmative
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.
atheism devil vices
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. Charles Spurgeon
atheism reason accepting
... reason accepts no commandments. Ayn Rand
atheism environment seeking
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
atheism may ifs
God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous C. S. Lewis
atheism atheist consider desire organized people religion sunday
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency. Lynn Coady
atheism inferiority taught
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
atheism hebrew accepting
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
atheism reason embrace
Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.
atheism wizards facts
One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.
atheism asceticism becoming
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
atheism demand patterns
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority. Archibald MacLeish
atheism odd ifs
If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.
atheism destroyed replaced
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced. Auguste Comte
atheism superstitions
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism. Denis Diderot
atheism orthodoxy corpses
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead. Elbert Hubbard
atheism metaphor creeds
A creed is an ossified metaphor.
atheism superstitions theology
Theology is Classified Superstition.
atheism earth slave
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
atheism may assuming
We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises. Aristotle
atheism proof existence
That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence. Ben Hecht
atheism wish needs
You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do value it. Alexis de Tocqueville
atheism believers case extremely found less staunch
Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism and evolution is less than extremely weak. Ray Comfort
atheism believe created creator essence hawking neither supposed unspoken violated
Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking.
atheism cause christians deny finds jesus lips simply single walk
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. Brennan Manning
atheism kind should
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. Samuel Butler
atheism pigeons method
We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion. Aleister Crowley
atheism beast
The beast faith lives on its own dung. Algernon Charles Swinburne
atheism christianity accepted
Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems. Aldous Huxley