Atheism Quotes

Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosi...

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that wher...

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn ...

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions a...

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent....

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you ar...

New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a c...

Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-dispos...

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, whe...

The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future...

If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one h...

Years ago atheism was an individual phenomenon; today atheism is social, the atheist who once was a ...

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly...

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justif...

As all men are touched by God’s love, so all are also touched by the desire for His intimacy. No one...

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Human...

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people ne...

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches e...

Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, c...

I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves ...

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci,...

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personal...

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personal...

I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. (...) And I believe there once were dragons. ...

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture,...

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

I'm a born-again atheist.

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose....

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perce...

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism...

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exi...

Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, a...

Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in h...

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to p...

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the trut...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in ...

We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by sugge...

I am an atheist.

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 w...

Somehow the realization that nothing was to be hoped for had a salutary effect upon me. For weeks an...

There is a sort of subdued pandemonium in the air, a note of repressed violence, as if the awaited e...

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some rea...

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

An effort was made to spread this new materialist atheism with its Communist consequence "by the swo...

Lucien took the cigar and lit it, in the Spanish fashion, from that of the priest. "He is right," Lu...

So, my dear fellow, if I don't believe in God, I believe still less in man.

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference bet...

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of t...

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and y...

I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact...

A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually rem...

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief.(Conversations pg 96)

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief....And supposedly 95% of Americans say they believe in...

...what about the stone, Mr Lovegood? The thing you call the Resurrection Stone?""What of it?""Well,...

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated...

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily ...

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily p...

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant?—I said that I had lost the faith, Step...

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – underst...

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every...

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every...

Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit ...

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take t...

I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me ...

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere,...

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I ...

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical...

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you someho...

She didn't like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I...

I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more ...

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that the...

I never heard enough damnation from your pulpit. Many mornings I had to strain to take hold of what ...

In the purifying sweep of atheism human beings lost all special value. The numb misery of the horse ...

Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened...

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals ...

When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the should...

Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources i...

Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to t...

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms I will no more believe than that th...

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who k...

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

The absence of theistic bel

[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece...