Atheism Quotes - Page 57

A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.

To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

A mere society form of Atheism.

If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.

He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.

Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.