Quotes about atheism
atheism believers case extremely found less staunch
Sadly, I have found that even evolution's most staunch believers are afraid to debate, because they know that their case for atheism and evolution is less than extremely weak. Ray Comfort
atheism believe created creator essence hawking neither supposed unspoken violated
Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like 'create' or even 'made.' They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it's unthinking. Ray Comfort
atheism unhappy balance
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem. Bertrand Russell
atheism speak precaution
It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word. Bertrand Russell
atheism may rays
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. Maurice Maeterlinck
atheism doe world
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life. C. Wright Mills
atheism three wealth
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power. Charles Caleb Colton
atheism divine sovereignty
Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism. Charles Spurgeon
atheism movement goes-on
The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
atheism affirmation made
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made. Charles Bradlaugh
atheism public-opinion court
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion. Charles Bradlaugh
atheism liberty chiefs
Liberty's chief foe is theology. Charles Bradlaugh
atheism doe without-god
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. Charles Bradlaugh
atheism form mere
A mere society form of Atheism. Charles Bradlaugh
atheism gains miserable
Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them? Charles Bradlaugh
atheism today socialism
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. August Bebel
atheism foxholes chaplains
There's a Chaplain who never visited the front. Kurt Vonnegut
atheism reign professors
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. William Shakespeare
atheism lasts rate
Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. Charles Darwin
atheism murder confessing
It is like confessing to a murder. Charles Darwin
atheism intellect affirmative
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed. Charles Darwin
atheism demand patterns
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority. Archibald MacLeish
atheism odd ifs
If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd. Archibald MacLeish
atheism done evidence-of-god
If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us. Barbara Ehrenreich
atheism agnosticism
I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism. Brad Pitt
atheism pantheism form
Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism. Arthur Schopenhauer
atheism world language
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. Arthur Schopenhauer
atheism destroyed replaced
Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced. Auguste Comte
atheism reason accepting
... reason accepts no commandments. Ayn Rand
atheism environment seeking
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself. Bertrand Russell
atheism may ifs
God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous C. S. Lewis
atheism pigeons method
We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion. Aleister Crowley
atheism beast
The beast faith lives on its own dung. Algernon Charles Swinburne