Quotes about atheism
atheism lasts theism
Atheism is the last word of theism Heinrich Heine
atheism woven world
The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
atheism mouths needs
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. Emma Goldman
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. Bertrand Russell
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 politics moral
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. Havelock Ellis
atheism discouraged theoretical
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life... Harry Emerson Fosdick
atheism want left-alone
I want to be left alone. Greta Garbo
atheism may
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself. Henry David Thoreau
atheism poison spirit
The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches. Jeremy Bentham
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 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 reason existence
Reason can never prove the existence of God. Immanuel Kant
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 seems
Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is. James Agee
atheism church taxation
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute. James A. Garfield
atheism lasts doe
I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion. Jack Steinberger
atheism conclusion greatest-atheist
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. Christopher Hitchens
atheism life-is blindness
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself. George Santayana
atheism lasts died
My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith. G. Gordon Liddy
atheism taste becoming
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
atheism information positive-atheism
Information doesn't kill you. Frank Zappa
atheism might causes
You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.
atheism abnormal wells
Well Mike, I'm abnormal.