24 Quotes on Atheism

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

  Author: Israel Zangwill

• 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.

  Author: Leslie Stephen

• 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.

  Author: George Santayana

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

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

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

  Author: Maximilien Robespierre

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

  Author: Dennis Prager

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

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

  Author: Vladimir Lenin

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

  Author: Lord Kelvin

• 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.

  Author: Anne Hutchinson

• The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

  Author: George Herbert

• Atheism is the last word of theism.

  Author: Heinrich Heine

• 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.

  Author: Augustus Hare

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

  Author: Edmond Goncourt

• Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

  Author: George Carlin

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

  Author: Taylor Caldwell

• 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.

  Author: Robert Bork

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

  Author: Annie Besant

• 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.

  Author: Ulrich Beck

• 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.

  Author: August Bebel

• A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

  Author: Francis Bacon

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

  Author: Francis Bacon

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

  Author: Mary Astell

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

  Author: Joseph Addison

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