Quotes on Atheism

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.