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I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

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• I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Write
  • Place

• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wishes

• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Divine

• A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Good
  • God
  • Catholic

• I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Want
  • Words
  • Woman

• Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moral

• Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

  

  John Adams
  • Hair
  • Hurt
  • Atheist

• I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Kids

• People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • People
  • Atheist

• An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

  

  James Buchan
  • Support
  • Atheist

• 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
  • World
  • Parents
  • Spiritual

• 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
  • God
  • Believe
  • Understanding

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• 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
  • Family
  • Father
  • Parents

• Thank God I'm an atheist.

  

  Luis Bunuel
  • God
  • Atheist

• As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Atheist

• I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • God
  • Done
  • Truth

• If God were alive today, he would have to be an atheist, because the excrement has hit the air-conditioning big time, big time.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Time
  • God
  • Today

• Citizenship of a democratic state means living by the laws of the country. A liberal democracy cannot survive when part of the population believes that divine laws trump those made by man.

  

  Ian Buruma
  • Democracy
  • Laws
  • Divine

• His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Voice
  • Looked
  • Shared

• Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Country
  • Guy
  • Hate

• Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Moments
  • Film
  • Odd

• We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of its existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Energy
  • Universe
  • Information

• I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

  

  Nomy Arpaly
  • Divine
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