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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

• I chase after inspiring stories.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Stories
  • Inspiring
  • Chase

• 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

• We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Culture
  • Religious

• 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
  • Purpose
  • Religion
  • Audience

• Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

  

  Monica Seles
  • Living
  • Life is
  • Bread

• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Wine

• The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've got to add up that entire two weeks and what the date is and whether it works. That kind of stuff drives me crazy and if I don't have it exactly right, I can't move forward because I don't feel confident.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Up
  • Time
  • Crazy

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

  

  Nomy Arpaly
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  • Atheist