Plato Quotes
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
A. N. Wilson
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
Samuel Butler
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A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
Pat Buckley
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You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
S. T. Joshi
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I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
Ian Mcewan
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Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
John Adams
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People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
Jodie Foster
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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
James Buchan
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Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
Patton Oswalt
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I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.
Alex Clare
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Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
Anthony Hopkins
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According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.
Pete Seeger
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Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.
Cliff Stearns
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There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.
Bruno Dumont
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I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
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My family is not only not religious, but my parents are both - they're secularists. My father is actually an atheist and feels very strongly about it.
Elif Batuman
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We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.
Eleanor Farjeon
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I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.
Edward Jay Epstein
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The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presentation of it, so that the audience is part of the creation and not just part of the consumption. Then it becomes much more full-bodied and robust.
Ava DuVernay
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I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason
Naguib Mahfouz
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I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.
Karl Lagerfeld
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No one ever dies an atheist.
Plato