Atheism Quotes

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. (George Santayana)
Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human. View quote
Andre Comte-Sponville
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. View quote
Ulrich Beck
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. View quote
John Updike
Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. View quote
Israel Zangwill
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. View quote
Edmond de Goncourt
Atheism is a non-prophet organization. View quote
George Carlin
To ignore the true God is in fact only half an evil; atheism is worth more than the piety bestowed on mythical gods. View quote
Emmanuel Levinas
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires. View quote
Annie Besant
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. View quote
Brennan Manning
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it'' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. View quote
Isaac Newton
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element. View quote
Augustus Hare
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice. View quote
Cicero
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism. View quote
Simone Weil
Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive. View quote
Simone Weil
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. View quote
Edmund Burke
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down. View quote
Joseph McCarthy
I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose. View quote
Joseph Addison
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them. View quote
George Santayana
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations. View quote
Sam Harris