atheism

1.

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

- Stedman, Captain J. G.

2.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

- Douglas, Norman

3.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

- Luis Bunuel

4.

Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.

- Osborne, John

5.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

- Richard Dawkins

6.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

- Shaw, George Bernard

7.

There is little hope that we shall learn the lessons God is for ever teaching us in the events of life till we get rid of our secret Atheism, till we give up the notion that God only visits now and then to disorder and destroy His own handiwork, and take back the old scriptural notion that God is visiting all day long for ever, to give order and life to His own work, to set it right where it goes wrong, and re-create it whenever it decays.

- Water of Life Sermons. 1866.

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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, Where is it?

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

- Richard Dawkins

10.

How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook.

11.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

- Updike, John

12.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

- Bacon, Francis

13.

There are no atheists in foxholes.

- Cummings, William T.

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You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.

- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

15.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

- Woody Allen

17.

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

18.

By night an atheist half believes in God.

- Young, Edward

19.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

- Henny Youngman

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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

- Donne, John