Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no bigot like the atheist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

John Dryden

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

John Maynard Keynes

The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists .

John Lothrop Motley

The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

John Locke

Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

Philip Pullman

I'm perfectly happy about being superstitious and atheistic.

Plato

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

Julian Barnes

It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have a black man in the White House but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell.

Joss Whedon

I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. ... I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.

Joss Whedon

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

Joss Whedon

It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.

Kim Kardashian

Even an atheist finds God when they point at what they don't believe in.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

Ralph Cudworth

Even the Atheists ... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something ... which was never made or produced -- and which therefore is the cause of those other things that are made, something ... whose existence must needs be necessary.... Wherefore all the question now is, what is this ... self-existent thing, which is the cause of all other things that are made.

Ralph Cudworth

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

Paula Poundstone

I happen to be a devout atheist. I don't believe in God. I still go to church -- I'm not a heathen. I go to an atheist church. We have crippled guys who stand up and testify that they were crippled, and they still are.

Peter Kreeft

There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.

Peter Kreeft

Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.

Peter Kreeft

Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

Peter Kreeft

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

Peter Kreeft

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Peter O'Toole

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.