Atheist Quotes

• I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Moral
  • Virtue
  • Judgment

• I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of the spirit world. Thank you for allowing me to speak about the spiritual, because I can't talk about my life or writing without mentioning that.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Simple
  • Comfort
  • Atheism

• Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.

  

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
  • Miracle
  • I Believe
  • Anatomy

• In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Atheist
  • Hungry

• I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.

  

  Norman Geisler
  • Faith
  • Atheist

• The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • God
  • Praise
  • Creator

• It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Rational

• We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Thinking
  • Reason
  • Enough

• Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Live
  • Why

• Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • World
  • Kind
  • Atoms

• For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • God
  • Believe
  • Angry

• You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Atheist
  • Deathbed
  • Cramming

• To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Responsibility
  • Imagination
  • Religious

• There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Running
  • Atheist

• Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Different
  • Faith
  • Brother

• Still an atheist at the time. For Heaven's sake...sorry, perhaps I should have said something else.

  

  Antony Flew
  • Time
  • Said
  • Atheist

• Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Christian
  • Christianity
  • Atheism

• Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • Honest
  • Atheist
  • Unambiguous

• In the final analysis, I believe that an atheist chaplain would be the last person in the world that we would want a dying soldier who needs that last moment counselling in their life.

  

  John Fleming
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Simple
  • Answers
  • Talking

• Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

  

  George William Foote
  • God
  • Existence
  • Atheist

• Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Faith
  • Waiting
  • Lying

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