Quotes about atheist
atheist stress views
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading. Richard Dawkins
atheist religion atheism
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. Richard Dawkins
atheist believe kyoto
I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan. Richard Dawkins
atheist children work-out
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. Richard Dawkins
atheist belief results
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. Richard Dawkins
atheist this-life
Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully. Richard Dawkins
atheist simple people
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth! Richard Dawkins
atheist doe world
I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this. Robert Green Ingersoll
atheist baptism religion
With soap, baptism is a good thing. Robert Green Ingersoll
atheist eagles wings
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. Robert Green Ingersoll
atheist clergy undesirable
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. Robert Green Ingersoll
atheist hands religion
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray. Robert Green Ingersoll
atheist intelligence religion
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. Robert Green Ingersoll
atheist wall light
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust. Robert Green Ingersoll
atheist winning names
It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which they can influence, with more importunity of solicitation to adopt their opinions. In proportion as they doubt the truth of their own doctrines, they are desirous to gain the attestation of another understanding: and industriously labour to win a proselyte, and eagerly catch at the slightest pretense to dignify their sect with a distinguished name. Samuel Johnson
atheist believe believe-in-god
It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God. Ruth Graham
atheist fear teaching
What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked? Rowan Atkinson
atheist want states
The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all Rocco Buttiglione
atheist real lying
Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth! Vladimir Lenin
atheist sake blame
She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness. Virginia Woolf
atheist half masters
...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist! Samuel Richardson
atheist heart men
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
atheist atheism chance
If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too. Salman Rushdie
atheist religion fundamentalism
Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power. Salman Rushdie
atheist ideas religion
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. Salman Rushdie
atheist pimp atheism
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named. William Congreve
atheist liars artist
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. Ursula K. Le Guin
atheist art moral
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. William Gurnall
atheist america hair
Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Sociological Review revealed that atheists are the least trusted group in America—less trusted, even, than homosexuals. It makes sense at least we trust the homosexuals with our hair. Stephen Colbert
atheist balls agnostic
Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls? Stephen Colbert
atheist balls
Agnostics are just atheists without balls. Stephen Colbert
atheist home broken
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments. Thomas Pynchon
atheist religion helping
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument. Thomas Gray