Atheism Quotes - Page 34

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for establishment clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation "under Jesus," a nation "under Vishnu," a nation "under Zeus," or a nation "under no god," because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated gradtuates - people literaly unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call "life".

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.

But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart!

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.