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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

John Updike

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An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can't see.

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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame -- Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support

Aldous Huxley

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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Simone Weil

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Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

Francis Bacon

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By night an atheist half believes in God.

Edward Young

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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

Laurence Sterne

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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, Where is it?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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God is dead

Friedrich Nietzsche

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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

John Donne

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He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

George Orwell

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How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook.

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Francis Bacon

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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

George Bernard Shaw

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If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Harold Macmillan

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Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Ambrose Bierce

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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

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No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Saki

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of -- the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

Olive Schreiner

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Francis Bacon

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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Jean Rostand

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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

Plato

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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade

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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

G. K. Chesterton

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We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

William Temple

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When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors; and when they separate, depend on it that it is for the sake of peace and quiet.

Laurence Sterne

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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

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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can't see.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame -- Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

By night an atheist half believes in God.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, Where is it?

God is dead

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

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?