Atheism Quotes & Sayings
These atheism quotes and atheism sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth of philosophy bringeth a man's mind about to religion. - Sir Francis Bacon
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 non-prophet organization. - George Carlin
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course. - Alan Alexander
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. - Orson Welles
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians - Sir Francis Bacon
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? - John Updike
I suspect the reason is that most people - have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about life. All I can say as a biologist is that the feeling disappears progressively the more you read about and study what is known about life and evolution. I want to add one thing more. The more you understand the significance of evolution, the more you are pushed away from the agnostic position and towards atheism. Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. - Richard Dawkins
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power. - Charles Caleb Colton
