Quotes about atheism
atheism christianity morbid
One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it. Friedrich Nietzsche
atheism gloves filth
One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.
atheism weapons sin
Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.
atheism literature path
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. George Jean Nathan
atheism speak
God speaks through me. George W. Bush
atheism best-god can-do
If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed. George Carlin
atheism textbooks want
There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred. Eugenie Scott
atheism tears crocodiles
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. Francis Bacon
atheism belief
A belief is not true simply because it is useful. Henri Frederic Amiel
atheism impossible new-testament
Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder? George Eliot
atheism moral judgment
A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.
atheism firsts immortality
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
atheism taste infinite
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.
atheism god horrors obvious
Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur. Vincent Bugliosi
atheism heart life man rather
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man
atheism moral opinions position rather richard rigid
Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. Lynn Coady
atheism serious jokes
The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious. Frank Zappa
atheism storm emperor
A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you! Frank Herbert
atheism argument accepting
You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied. Giordano Bruno
atheism world matter
The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical. H. L. Mencken
atheism surprise millions
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. George Herbert
atheism criteria theologian
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
atheism weakness spirit
None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
atheism vedas doctrine
There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas. Horace Greeley
atheism thanks century
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. Honore de Balzac
atheism different citizens
It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens. James Bryce
atheism sumerians advantage
Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.) Isaac Asimov
atheism outsiders fantasy
Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.
atheism reason existence
Reason can never prove the existence of God. Immanuel Kant
atheism division pope
The Pope? How many divisions has he got? Joseph Stalin
atheism agents venture
I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well. Leonard Susskind
atheism boots matter
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. Mikhail Bakunin
atheism absence reverse
You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse. Margaret Atwood