Atheist Quotes

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.

This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are inconsistent with their belief.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it with the lack of influence of nonbelievers.

I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?"

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

If you believe in God, that's a belief. If you are an atheist, it's a belief too, because you cannot prove that God does not exist.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept.

We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and celebrating what they did.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

Richard Dawkins is arguably England's most pious atheist.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God.

An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own sources and specific roots. We should analyze these.

The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.

You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a bit silly to be a militant atheist.