Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 24

• God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  God, Atheism, Flow

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• It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Atheism, Heretic

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 3, l. 114

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• Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Overcoming, Want

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• The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

  Eric Hoffer

  Attitude, Doubt, Conviction

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so unlikely I can't go along with it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Order, Ideas, Giving

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• I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Jesus, Believe

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• If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.

  William Graham Sumner

  Betrayal, War, Fighting

  William Graham Sumner (1963). “Social Darwinism: selected essays”, Prentice Hall

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Clergy, Undesirable

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

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• To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Past, Joy

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.412, Harvard University Press

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• All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

  Henry Clay

  Government, Atheism, Liberty

  Calvin Colton, Henry Clay (1857). “The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay: In Six Volumes”, p.223

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• As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Believe, People

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• Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.

  Luther Burbank

  Law, Justice, Unity

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• Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

  Luther Burbank

  Insanity, Theology

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• I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

  Luther Burbank

  Struggle, Race, Atheism

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• Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Different, Certificates

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1912). “Some Mistakes of Moses”, p.77, Library of Alexandria

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• Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

  John Selden

  Atheism, World, Littles

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.132

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• Never king dropped out of the clouds.

  John Selden

  Kings, Clouds, Atheism

  John Selden, Samuel Weller Singer, Edward FitzGerald (1860). “Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes”, p.219

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• What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Two, Agree Upon, Agree

  Letter to John Adams, January 11, 1817.

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• Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Views, Speech

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Atheism: collected essays, 1943-1949”, Arno Pr

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• Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Adoption, Abortion, Atheism

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

  John Dewey

  Men, Medicine, Psychology

  The Public and Its Problems Ch. 5

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• Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

  Max Born

  Civilization, Atheism, Tradition

  1968 My Life and Views.

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• Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

  Frank Zappa

  Race, Tin Cans, Guy

  Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto, May 1969.

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• Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Atheism, Equal

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.522, VM eBooks

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• Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

  Steven Weinberg

  Order, Support, Atheism

  Freethought Today (unidentified article/page), April 2000.

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