Motivational Quotes

Atheism

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

- Pasternak, Boris

Best Quotes about Atheism

And as for the unbelievers, their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain which the man athirst supposes to be water, till when he comes to it, he finds it is nothing; there indeed he finds God, and He pays him his account in full; (and God is swift at the reckoning).

Qur'an

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

John Buchan

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

Henny Youngman

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

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

Plato

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

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

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

Woody Allen

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If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

Feuerbach, Ludwig

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I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Jules Renard

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

Bacon, Francis

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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Sade, Marquis De

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Atheism is easy in fair weather.

Dunn, Ronald

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Voltaire

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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame -- Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support

Huxley, Aldous

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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it,'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

Sterne, Laurence

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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Munro, Hector Hugh

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By night an atheist half believes in God.

Young, Edward

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I'm still an atheist, thank God.

Luis Bunuel

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Bierce, Ambrose

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An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can't see.

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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Rostand, Jean

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

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Here lies an Atheist: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go.

Epitaph

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Stedman, Captain J. G.

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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said,yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Crisp, Quentin

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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

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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Woody Allen

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I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.

Kersh, Gerald

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If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I am a daylight atheist.

Behan, Brendan F.

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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

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If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Macmillan, Harold

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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

Schreiner, Olive

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There are no atheists in foxholes.

Cummings, William T.

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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Peter De Vries

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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

Thompson, Francis

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He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

Orwell, George

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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors; and when they separate, depend on it that it is for the sake of peace and quiet.

Sterne, Laurence

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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"

Quentin Crisp

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If you can't believe in God, chances are your God is too small.

Phillips, James

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If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

G. K. Chesterton