Atheism Quotes

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States...

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we r...

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is th...

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist...

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They th...

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, a...

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu...

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't ...

...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by seve...

The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is ...

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone...

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human s...

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which ...

The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influ...

A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous,...

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words ...

You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophe...

Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This i...

We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them ...

Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an u...

It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and...

Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courag...

The human species – mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of expl...

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever...

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the ha...

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for ...

At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelie...

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I...

The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means...

I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versio...

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was...

Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distru...

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian st...

You don’t so much as become an atheist as find out that’s what you are. There’s no moment of convers...

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or...

I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedral...

Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thi...

At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelie...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, bu...

th. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea ...

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imper...

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian pligh...

Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front f...

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...

Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but...Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology...

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try an...

I cannot, of course, prove that there is no supervising deity who invigilates my every momentand who...

the believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not mer...

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer c...

Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adher...

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news ...

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the r...

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or un...

To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main pr...

Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defende...

There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I fe...

We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, a...

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous mer...

We may differ on many things, but what we respect is freeinquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of...

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Yet in our hands and within our view is a whole universe of discovery and clarification, which is a ...

Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact...

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and re...

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for s...

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decim...

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to re...

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles a...

The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That ...

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't ...

I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who wo...

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. ...

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serf...

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment comp...

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be...

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't kno...

I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that...

I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bir...

I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the cul...

Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there...

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the ...

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the ...

Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? th...

A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has esta...

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.