Quotes about atheism
atheism argument
Follow the argument wherever it leads. Socrates
atheism erasmus trinity
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date. Isaac Newton
atheism professors mankind
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
atheism nausea christianity
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life. Friedrich Nietzsche
atheism godliness
Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.
atheism christianity morbid
One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.
atheism gloves filth
One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.
atheism weapons sin
Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.
atheism unnecessary term
Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism... Daniel Dennett
atheism surprise millions
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. George Herbert
atheism criteria theologian
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
atheism life-is blindness
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself. George Santayana
atheism lasts died
My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith. G. Gordon Liddy
atheism taste becoming
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
atheism impossible new-testament
Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder? George Eliot
atheism moral judgment
A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.
atheism firsts immortality
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
atheism taste infinite
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.
atheism serious jew
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew. Steven Pinker
atheism invocation enjoy
I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation! Steven Weinberg
atheism absurd wells
'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd. Robert Browning
atheism may moral
Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact. Richard Mentor Johnson
atheism morality function
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. Garrett Hardin
atheism lasts theism
Atheism is the last word of theism Heinrich Heine
atheism events nostalgia
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. Raymond Aron
atheism belief absence
... the absence of theistic belief. Joseph McCabe
atheism different citizens
It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens. James Bryce
atheism vices opinion
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures. Marquis de Sade
atheism constitution framed
The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted. Henry Steele Commager
atheism doctrine looks
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. Henrik Ibsen
atheism littles preference
To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage. James Randi
atheism littles
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him. Louis Pasteur
atheism malice preaching
The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching. John Adams