Atheist Quotes
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I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
Ernst Mayr -
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
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Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
Ravi Zacharias -
I think at least two of my kids - and I'm - I better not speak them by name because I'm not sure where they are these days, but at least two of them believe in some kind of higher force. The - another is an atheist and the other is still pondering.
Nat Hentoff -
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
Patrick Henry -
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 -
Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?
Dan Barker -
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.
Francis Collins
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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 -
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
Whitley Strieber -
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 -
Atheism is an effect of that knowledge [a poll showed atheists knew more about religion than anyone else], not a lack of knowledge. I gave a bible to my daughter. That is how you make atheists.
David Silverman -
Still an atheist at the time. For Heaven's sake...sorry, perhaps I should have said something else.
Antony Flew -
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing.
Thomas Aquinas
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I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.
Nomy Arpaly -
I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
Sara Paretsky -
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Joseph McCabe -
You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.
Dolly Parton -
New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
Stanley Kubrick -
How can you be a vegetarian atheist and own a gun? Well, that's who I am.
Bobcat Goldthwait
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I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.
Norman Geisler -
I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.
Dan Barker -
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard Stern -
The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.
Dan Barker