Atheist quotes

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

Aristophanes

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older, then it dawned on me, they're cramming for their final exam.

George Carlin

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

George Carlin

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God, this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

Edward Abbey

The Creator has to be experienced beyond the five senses and the only instrument that can experience in this way, for you, is yourself, in the state of thoughtless awareness in which you declare 'I am' and hold it.

Barry Long

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

George Orwell

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

The fact is that unless you experience something for yourself it does not exist for you.

Barry Long

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever, This is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Albert Einstein

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.

Arthur C. Clarke

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

Arthur C. Clarke

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

Arthur C. Clarke

As nations improve, so do their gods.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

A. Whitney Brown

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is just mind control.

George Carlin

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Aldous Huxley

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All thinking men are atheists.

Ernest Hemingway

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Emile Zola

That God does not exist, I cannot deny,
That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Jean Paul Sartre

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Jean Paul Sartre

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind.

Isaac Asimov

Given the circumstance that God didn't preserve the words, the conclusion seemed inescapable to me that he hadn't gone to the trouble of inspiring them.

Bart Ehrman

In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

John Buchan

The prison warder asked me my religion and I replied 'agnostic'. He remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose we all worship the same God. '.

Bertrand Russell

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potter

Religion is the highest vanity.

Hebbel

Atheism is the last word of theism.

Heinrich Heine

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up they have no holidays.

Henny Youngman