resources-referencesWhat are the famous quotes on atheism?
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
Epicurus – Greek philosopher, BC 341-270
“Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.” - Anonymous
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. – Richard Dawkins
“Isn’t it enought to see that a garden is beautiful, without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
– Douglas Adams, quoted by Richard Dawkins on the forepage of the God Delusion.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful
Seneca the Younger 4 BC - 65 AD (Disputed)
“I’m a polyatheist. There are many gods I don’t believe in.”
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.” — Stephen Roberts
“One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.” — Robert G. Ingersoll
“Science knows it doesn’t know everything. Otherwise it’d stop.” – Dara O’Briain
“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.” — Gene Roddenberry
“What does God need with a starship?” — Captain James T. Kirk
“Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.” - Anonymous
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” - Albert Einstein
“Sir, I have no need of that hypothesis.” - Pierre Laplace, when asked by Napoleon about the place of God in celestial mechanics
“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.” - Steven Weinberg
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. - Madalyn Murray O’Hair
The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can’t agree on whose fairy tales to believe. In the end, Religion will kill us all. – Ed Krebs
“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man’s place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.” - Bertrand Russell
Pretty much sums up my entire view on life and the world.
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. – Delos B. McKown
“That which can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.” - Christopher Hitchens
“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also” - Mark Twain
“Religion s like a penis, It’s fine to have one. It’s fine to be proud of it. But please don’t whip it out in public and start waving it around and PLEASE don’t try to shove it down my children’s throats”. - Citation needed
“I’m normally not a praying man, but if you’re up there, please save me Superman”. - Homer Simpson
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s”. - Mark Twain
“If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever”. - Woody Allen
“Nietzsche said, ‘God is dead’, Freud said, ‘God is Dad’ - Christopher Hitchens
“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so”
– Ernestine Ros
“Let us now discuss why there is no God. But do not let the maid hear us, or she might start stealing.” - attributed to Voltaire.
“Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.” - Christopher Hitchens
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
-James Buchan
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.- Roger Ebert
Jesus was a black man, no he was batman, no no no that was bruce wayne.
Lyrics from the song Reverend Black Grape written by Shaun Ryder and Danny Saber, of the band Black Grape.
The human thirst for the transcendent, the numinous—even the ecstatic—is too universal and too important to be entrusted to the cultish and the archaic and the superstitious.
Atheistou buď, toť víra jistá,
Pán Bůh sám je také atheista.
–Karel Havlíček Borovský
(Be an atheist, that’s the most certain faith,
God himself is an atheist, too)
And this one, same source, a bit dated, but funny:
Priest makes from bread and wine
For peasant’s soul
Body and blood.
Peasant makes from body and blood
For priest’s body
Wine and bread.
“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”
Ayn Rand
Phil Plait “Dont be a dick” by which he means you must be nice to get your point across.
http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=10928
As I sail myself :
“The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail”
who knows the source of this quote ?
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell
Another Ingersoll quote:
When I became convinced that the Universe is natural that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom.
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