Atheism Quotes

Baron d'Holbach Quote: All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. 
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? 
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Epicurus

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All children are atheists - They have no idea of God.

Baron d'Holbach

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Isaac Asimov

The real oppressor, enslaver, and corrupter of the people is the Bible.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Seneca

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

Mark Twain

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Robert A. Heinlein

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

Dion Fortune

There are no sects in geometry.

Voltaire

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

Denis Diderot

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What was been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

Thomas Jefferson

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

Matthew Arnold

All Bibles are man-made.

Thomas Edison

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

Thomas Jefferson

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world

Richard Dawkins

A thorough reading and understanding of the bible is the surest path to atheism.

Donald Morgan

I believe in god, only I spell it nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

Abu Ala Al-Ma'arri

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

James Madison

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

Protagoras

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

James Feibleman

If the book the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

Robert Green Ingersoll

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

Delos B. McKown

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

George Bernard Shaw

You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it’s based on a deep seated need to believe.

Carl Sagan

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

Mark Twain

Faith means not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A Seeker's Thoughts on Atheism
We are all probably atheist to some degree, especially when taking in to consideration all the gods that have gone before us, that is to say all the various cultures and civilizations in mankinds history.

Though from a spiritual standpoint, holding on to atheistic and materialistic concepts for dear life, can have, in my humble opinion, detrimental existential consequences.
For example a hardcore materialist can 'never' discover and co-create the inner existential union that a sage and mystic like The Buddha, or Ramana Maharshi or Meister Eckhart, experiences.

The sage realizes that although a "God" may not exist as is often described in organized religions, there still is this source-being which is the root consciousness, which in turn is the first principle which always is present in all sentient experience.

In other words this source-being or primordial consciousness could be equated to God. Because in truth, there is only consciousness, neither atoms nor quarks can exist without a consciousness to bare witness.