Quotes about atheist
atheist people scare
Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness. Fran Lebowitz
atheist government giving
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. George Washington
atheist men insightful
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. George Santayana
atheist catholic religion
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. George Orwell
atheist doe ifs
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible. Fyodor Dostoevsky
atheist believe atheism
It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!
atheist existentialism ifs
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
atheist world easier
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
atheist children doubt
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
atheist believe men
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.
atheist fear reality
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Friedrich Nietzsche
atheist pain struggle
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
atheist heart atheism
Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! Miles Franklin
atheist perfect denial
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator. Marcel Proust
atheist soy dio
En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona. Jose Saramago
atheist names atheism
... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers. Jonathan Swift
atheist harmony universe
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
atheist regret real
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature. John C. Wright
atheist eye doctors
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. James Thurber
atheist character events
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. James Madison
atheist fall civilization
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. Emile Zola
atheist evil world
The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist? Epicurus
atheist faith-religion omnipotence
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
atheist faith-religion omnipotence
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
atheist community connections
In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me. Edward Teller
atheist laughing catholic
I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God. Heinrich Boll
atheist faith-in-god language
I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called in their language Waralda, the ancient one, the one who is mightier than we are. Heinrich Himmler
atheist if-there-is-a-god atheism
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. Heywood Broun
atheist men atheism
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. Henry Ward Beecher
atheist infidelity devil
An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
atheist mean reason
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. Jonathan Safran Foer
atheist believe challenges
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
atheist believe intelligent
You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you. Napoleon Bonaparte