Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

Will Rogers

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

Will Rogers

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

Yuri Gagarin

I don't see any god up here first man in space, while in space.

W. Somerset Maugham

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

W. Somerset Maugham

I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.

Vladimir Lenin

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!

Virginia Woolf

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.

Samuel Richardson

...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 Taylor Coleridge

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.

Salman Rushdie

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

Salman Rushdie

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.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

Thomas Aquinas

Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

Thom Yorke

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

Terry Pratchett

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

Terry Pratchett

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

Terry Pratchett

It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.

Terry Pratchett

You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

Sean M. Carroll

Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.

Leonard Peikoff

Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.

Lee Kuan Yew

I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God. So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God - nor deny that there could be one.

Neil Peart

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

Marcus Aurelius

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

Samuel Johnson

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.