Quotes about atheist
atheist men wish
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. Napoleon Bonaparte
atheist plato believe
I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.
atheist men religion
All religions have been made by men.
atheist enough
I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.. Norman Geisler
atheist men trying
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see..... Orlando Aloysius Battista
atheist thinking atheism
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion. Oriana Fallaci
atheist historical culture
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. Orhan Pamuk
atheist believe pride
There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.
atheist prayer wine
How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yours Will make a cup, bowl, one day a jar. When once you hear the roses are in bloom, Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine; Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell- These are but fairy-tales, forget them all. Omar Khayyam
atheist religion atheism
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. Eric Hoffer
atheist harmony universe
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
atheist regret real
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature. John C. Wright
atheist eye doctors
Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. James Thurber
atheist fall civilization
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. Emile Zola
atheist evil world
The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist? Epicurus
atheist faith-religion omnipotence
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
atheist faith-religion omnipotence
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
atheist believe angry
I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe. Simone de Beauvoir
atheist thinking world
It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.
atheist believe order
In order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist. Simone Weil
atheist acceptance order
All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.
atheist objectivity majority
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
atheist war suicide-bombers
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. Simon Hoggart
atheist real atheism
To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist. Robert Andrews Millikan
atheist gun society
An armed society is a polite society. Robert A. Heinlein
atheist cat dark
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
atheist government church
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
atheist firsts principles
The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
atheist men religion
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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
atheist existence
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing Thomas Aquinas
atheist may suspicion
It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god Thom Yorke
atheist giving discworld
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. Terry Pratchett
atheist atheism discs
On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.