Atheism Quotes

Atheism, that bugbear of women and fools, is the very top and perfection of freethinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.

To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty.

The atheist does not say “there is no God,” but he says “I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God; the word ‘God’ is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation… The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not […]

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect. “he” becomes a being, not Being itself. An […]

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

‘I do not believe in God’ has always meant something different at each period of history. The people who have been dubbed ‘atheists’ over the years have always denied a particular conception of the divine. Is the ‘God’ who is rejected by atheists today, the God of the patriarchs, the god of the prophets, the […]