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Positive Atheism Quotes

Religion is a collective insanity.

Religion is a collective insanity.

Mikhail Bakunin
Insanity, Atheism, Positive Atheism
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

Joseph Stalin
Atheism, There Is No God, Positive Atheism
"Landmarks in the Life of Stalin" by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, (p. 90), 1942.

What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

Nel Noddings
Atheism, World, Positive Atheism
Nel Noddings (1991). “Women and Evil”, p.23, Univ of California Press

Heresy makes for progress.

Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
Progress, Atheism, Positive Atheism

Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.

Frank Zappa
Looks, Brown, Positive Atheism
Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

Francis Crick
Atheist, Positive Atheism, Ifs
Francis Crick (1995). “Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.

Voltaire
Wise, Positive Atheism, Things Happen

A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.)

Gerhard Tersteegen
Atheism, Positive Atheism

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

Simone de Beauvoir
Atheist, Believe, Positive Atheism

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Atheist, Clergy, Positive Atheism
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.479, Library of Alexandria

Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life

Maynard James Keenan
Atheism, Positive Atheism

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Maurice Maeterlinck
Good Life, Positive Atheism, Truth And Falsehood
"Wisdom and Destiny". Book by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1898.

Science is the only savior.

Luther Burbank
Atheism, Savior, Positive Atheism

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Jerry Falwell
Christian, Born Again, Positive Atheism
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

Frank Zappa
Names, Moments, Positive Atheism

God is man idealized.

Amiri Baraka
Men, Atheism, Positive Atheism
Imamu Amiri Baraka (1966). “Home: Social Essays”, New York : Morrow

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Julian Huxley
Thinking, Atheism, Positive Atheism
"Traveller's Library (Religion and Science: Old Wine in New Bottles)". Book edited by William Somerset Maugham, 1933.

Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another.

Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
Atheism, Love One Another, Positive Atheism

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Denis Diderot
Atheism, Superstitions, Positive Atheism
"Philosophical Thoughts". Book by Denis Diderot, 1746.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Atheism, Parody, Positive Atheism

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

Luther Burbank
Children, Theology, Positive Atheism
Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

John Keats
Dream, Paradise, Positive Atheism
'The Fall of Hyperion' (written 1819) l. 1

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

Thomas Paine
Remembrance, Atheism, Positive Atheism
Thomas Paine (1826). “An Essay on the Origin of Free Masonry”, p.9

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.

John Osborne
Emotional, Atheism, Positive Atheism
John Osborne (2014). “Looking Back”, p.17, Faber & Faber

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

Henry David Thoreau
Last Words, Positive Atheism, Funny Famous Last Words
Henry David Thoreau, James Henry Daugherty (1967). “Henry David Thoreau: a man for our time”

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