Quotes on Atheism

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." _x000D_ "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." _x000D_ "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.