Quotes about atheism
atheism facts can-do
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do. Joseph Wood Krutch
atheism events nostalgia
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. Raymond Aron
atheism sloppy ifs
If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism. Ronald Knox
atheism records doe
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Robert A. Heinlein
atheism looks purpose
From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason. Marcus Aurelius
atheism tasks affliction
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis. Sigmund Freud
atheism serious jew
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew. Steven Pinker
atheism invocation enjoy
I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation! Steven Weinberg
atheism absurd wells
'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd. Robert Browning
atheism may moral
Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact. Richard Mentor Johnson
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 Francis Bacon
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 beginning clear created fight science showcase stand straw trying
It's clear from the beginning that this is not a real science discussion. This is a showcase for intelligent design. They have created a straw man. They are trying to make science stand for atheism so they can fight atheism.
atheism head inclined involved might point rather sit takes talk thinking women
It takes a lot of thinking to get to the point where you don't believe, Atheism is a head thing. Women might be more inclined to be involved in something rather than to sit around and talk and talk.
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 vices opinion
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures. Marquis de Sade
atheism slave reason
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it. Mark Twain
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 storm emperor
A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you! Frank Herbert
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
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
atheism theological
Atheism is too theological. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 superstitions next
I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet. Harriet Martineau
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 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.