Atheism Quotes - Page 14

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.

I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

It all depends what you mean by.

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with me throughout my years in science. Whenever one of my students came to me with a scientific project, I asked only one question, 'Will it bring you nearer to God?'

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.