Quotes About Atheism

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

Atheists . What grounds have they for saying that no one can rise from the dead? Which is harder, to be born or to rise again? That what has never been should be, or that what has been should be once more? Is it harder to come into existence than to come back? Habit makes us find the one easy, while lack of habit makes us find the other impossible.

I do not know whether God exists, but I know that I have nothing to gain from being an atheist if he does not exist, whereas I have plenty to lose if he does. Hence, this justifies my belief in God.

I beamed benevolently at them over my third atheistic cup of coffee and ate my existentialist egg;

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

Religion will recede not by atheists shouting condemnation, but by the quiet voice of reason slowly making itself heard.

It would be too strong to say that because avowed atheism emerged riding on the back of the Enlightenment it should take the credit for its achievements. But it would be equally foolish to see the simultaneous emergence of modern atheism and the Enlightenment as purely coincidental.

What the rise of religions did was to give a name to a set of beliefs (atheism) that had always existed but which was considered so unexceptional that it required no special label.

The beliefs of atheists would have to require at least as much faith as those of religious believers. But they don't.

Atheism is not a faith position because it is belief in nothing beyond that which is supported by evidence and argument. Religious belief is a faith position because it goes beyond what there is evidence or argument for. That is why faith requires something 'special' that ordinary belief does not have.

if there were no theists, there wouldn't even be any atheists.

whether this Court agrees that 'religion' meant monotheism or believes that it meant Christianity … it is clear that atheism, heathenism, and paganism were not part of the definition of

For M. Maurras the practical is the divine, and his atheism consists less in denying God than in shifting him to man and his political work. It is the divinizing of politics.

George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Great hypocrite are the real atheists

Atheists have had to resort to wild speculations to give chance more of a chance.

Atheists must make a positive case that only material things exist. That's why instead of debating "Does God exist?" I prefer to debate the question "What better explains reality: atheism or theism?

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

The bonobo would first of all urge the atheist to stop "sleeping furiously." There is no point getting all worked up about the absence of something, especially something as open to interpretation as God.

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