Quotes about atheist
atheist acceptance order
All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved. Simone Weil
atheist objectivity majority
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
atheist war suicide-bombers
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. Simon Hoggart
atheist eye want-something
What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you. Steve Buscemi
atheist order law
We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. Stephen Hawking
atheist mind ifs
What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist.
atheist intelligent poverty
The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.
atheist way whim
All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.
atheist heaven heard
I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven Stella Young
atheist superstitions doe
God's only excuse is that he does not exist. Stendhal
atheist fear religion
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
atheist atheism spirit
The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
atheist believe comeback
Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.
atheist humanity age
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind. Sigmund Freud
atheist nice order
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
atheist attitude reality
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.
atheist men atheism
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
atheist real atheism
To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist. Robert Andrews Millikan
atheist gun society
An armed society is a polite society. Robert A. Heinlein
atheist cat dark
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
atheist government church
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
atheist firsts principles
The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
atheist calendars moments
There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it. Tom Stoppard
atheist judging atheism
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist. Thomas Chalmers
atheist believe hypocrite
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face. Thomas Adams
atheist powerful believe
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God. Victor Hugo
atheist believe two
Atheist, in the strict and proper sense of the word, is one who does not believe in the existence of a god, or who owns no being superior to nature. It is compounded of the two terms ... signifying without God. Richard Watson
atheist faith-religion atheism
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. Thomas Paine
atheist mistake errors
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.
atheist fear pain
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
atheist motivation use
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
atheist lying book
...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
atheist philosophy men
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.