Best Atheism Quotes

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Religion is based … mainly upon fear … fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don’t… Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe…same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat’s testicles, it’s all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I’m probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don’t think anyone really knows. You’ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there’s no point thinking about it.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position.

If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can’t be very important gods.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

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

Every one starts out being an atheist.

Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

I’m proud to be an atheist – it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.