As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Atheism Quotes
Carl Sagan has the most entries, then Thomas Henry Huxley, Simone Weil, Voltaire and Christopher Hitchens. Weil, a deeply religious writer, is on the list because she wrote about its edges. The sourced lines include Russell’s remark in Sceptical Essays (1928) that thought is not free if professing certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living, and Woody Allen’s in Stardust Memories (1980), “To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.”
Three entries are flagged. The argument that God is either unwilling or unable to prevent evil is credited to Epicurus and disputed; the notes show it reaches us second-hand, in a later writer’s account of him. “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful” is credited to Seneca and disputed. A line about having too high an IQ to be anything but an atheist, credited to Donald Trump, is marked misattributed.
The atheists have the greatest faith: they believe that God does not exist.
There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.
A man who parades his piety is one who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know".
Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.
One should not have the arrogance to declare that God does not exist.