Atheism Quotes

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.

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.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

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.

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

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.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.