With
atheists, agnostics and free thinkers in mind.
Please
note these quotes were not all made by atheists, though many were.
Some of the quotes just have to do with logic, rational thinking
and being ostracized for not thinking with the majority.
Contents
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For
Further Reading
Atheist
Quotes - Part I
There
is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing
exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would
have made all good, and no bad. - Mark Twain
It
was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions,
a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in
a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it
clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then
it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so
far as our science can reveal it. - Albert
Einstein
Believe
nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held
in honor for many generations and in many places. Do not believe
a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith
of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have
imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing
on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination,
believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable,
and conform your conduct thereto. - Gautama
Buddha
Atheism
is the vice of a few intelligent people. -
Voltaire
Religion
is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false,
and by the rulers as useful. - Seneca
Faith:
belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without
knowledge, of things without parrallel. -
Ambose Bierce. The
Devil's Dictionary
I
do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed
us with sense, reason and intellect has intended to forgo their
use. - Galileo
Galilei
There's
a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire--poison
and antidote. - Bertrand
Russell
It
ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother
me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark
Twain
New
truths begin as heresies. - Thomas Huxley
You
have not converted a man because you have silenced him. -
John Morley
One
religion is as true as another. - Robert Burton
A man's
ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education,
and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man
would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einstein
from Atheism Quotes
God
seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running
out. - Arthur Koestler
Beware
of the man whose God is in the skies. - George
Bernard Shaw
Extraordinary
claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl
Sagan
Everything
great comes from neurotics. They alone have founded religions and
composed our masterpieces. - Marcel Proust
An
atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. -
Sir John Buchan from Zaadz
Quotes by Topic
The
Papacy is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire,
sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. -
Thomas Hobbes
Where
it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime
to examine the laws of heat. - John Morley
If
there was no God, it would be necessary to invent him. -
Voltaire
God
is not dead, but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious
project. - Graffiti
Nothing
is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways
that lead to new beginnings. -
Ralph
Blum from Inspirational Quotes
Proofs
are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels
the imaginative fitness of its faith. --
George Santayana
Faith
embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. -
Blaise Pascal
All
religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in
his own way. - Frederick the Great
A
cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints. -
Italian Proverb
If
Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children
would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead
of crosses. - Lenny Bruce
When
man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal
and wholesome life. - Sigmund Freud
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