Edward's quotes

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"To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition."
— Woody Allen

tags: absurd, atheism, humor
385 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,367 people liked it

"Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature."
— Carl Sagan

tags: atheism, religion
64 people liked it

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."
— Albert Einstein

41 people liked it

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: atheism, religion, sun
10 people liked it

"Sarcasm isn't an attitude. It's an art"
— Michelle Lee

18 people liked it

"Atheism is a non-prophet organization."
— George Carlin

tags: atheism
97 people liked it

"Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby."
— Penn Jillette

10 people liked it

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
— Isaac Asimov

53 people liked it

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
— Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion)

tags: religion
137 people liked it

"Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them. "
— Richard Dawkins

30 people liked it

"All thinking men are atheists."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

tags: atheism, inspirational
122 people liked it

"In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs."
— Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation)

5 people liked it

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
— Voltaire

tags: atheism, religion, skepticism
17 people liked it

"I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe and this would include my Father Brother and almost all of my friends will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine."
— Charles Darwin

tags: atheism, charles, darwin, religion, skepticism
3 people liked it

"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
— Quentin Crisp

tags: atheism, idiocy
26 people liked it

"As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, philosophy
14 people liked it

"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." - "
— Gene Roddenberry

tags: atheism, atheist, god, humans, religion
53 people liked it

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
— Mark Twain

tags: bible, books
509 people liked it

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism
596 people liked it

"As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?'"
— Bill Bryson (The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America)

tags: cynicism, humor
98 people liked it

"The world is my country,
all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion."
— Thomas Paine

tags: god, life
128 people liked it

"Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

109 people liked it

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: philosophy
252 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,521 people liked it

"Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: humanism, postmodernism
16 people liked it

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
— Groucho Marx

103 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television
2,952 people liked it

"Give me a break." (Lennon's comment to fundamentalist Christian outrage at his comment that the Beatles were now more popular than Jesus)"
— John Lennon

tags: 1960s, anti-christian, beatles, censorship, christ, christianity, jesus
35 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,973 people liked it

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."
— Jules Renard

tags: god
20 people liked it

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"
— Bertrand Russell

tags: god, religion
22 people liked it

"It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you."
— Bertrand Russell

19 people liked it

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked and science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?" Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way." A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths."
— Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space)

15 people liked it

"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
— Bertrand Russell (A History of Western Philosophy)

tags: philosophy, science
9 people liked it

"Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith. Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge."
— Robert G. Ingersoll

tags: faith, religion, skepticism, superstition
3 people liked it

"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"
— Carl Sagan

tags: sagan, science, skepticism, truth
7 people liked it

"It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies."
— Noam Chomsky

15 people liked it

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
— Eric Hoffer

tags: faith
14 people liked it

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
— Lillian Hellman

5 people liked it

"I’m an atheist and I thank God for it."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: humor, religion
22 people liked it

"The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom."
— Clarence Darrow

tags: religion
3 people liked it

"Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept."
— Dan Barker (Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists)

tags: atheism, science
17 people liked it

"I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth."
— Edward Abbey

9 people liked it

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
— Arthur C. Clarke

29 people liked it

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."
— Joseph Campbell

7 people liked it

"Religion is reguarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

3 people liked it

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself."
— Richard Francis Burton

tags: religion
16 people liked it

""This so-called new religion is nothing but a pack of weird rituals and chants designed to take away the money of fools. Now let us say the lord's prayer 40 times, but first let's pass the collection plate."
- Rev. Lovejoy"
— Matt Groening

tags: funny, religion, simpsons
3 people liked it