#atheist

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

#agnosticism #atheism #atheist #philosophy #equality

Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music. ↗

— Sam Harris

#reason #religion #beauty

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#care #dame #game #man #methodist

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#atheist #been #ear #father #friends

By night an atheist half believes in a God. ↗

— Edward Young

#believes #god #half #night

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#am #artist #atheist #distrust #everything

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#atheist #deny #faith #great #greater

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#between #called #fight #god #name

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#atheist #combating #father #forms #his

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#born #down-to-earth #grew #i #i was born