“All thinking men are atheists.”
— Ernest Hemingway“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”
— Marcel Duchamp“I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.”
— Woody Allen“A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.”
— Scott Dikkers“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
— Lord Byron“belief is the death of intelligence.”
— Robert Anton Wilson“If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”
— Woody Allen“We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.”
— Stefan Molyneux“I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.”
— Brad Pitt“Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.”
— Therese Doucet“whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived”
— Baruch Spinoza“Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.”
— Stefan Molyneux“Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.”
— Francois Mitterrand“I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.”
— Georges Duhamel“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”
— Christopher Hitchens“Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?”
— Doug Wright“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.[]”
— James Madison“The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.”
— Philip Pullman“It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.”
— Martin Amis“I have always considered Pascal's Wager a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.”
— Alan Dershowitz“I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.”
— Billy Connolly“Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.”
— Kingsley Amis“And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.(To Science)”
— George Sterling“God is a book I can no longer read.”
— Floriano Martins“Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.”
— Robert W. Cox“The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
— Mark Twain“The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.”
— Sam HarrisI am an atheist, and I believe in the immortality of the soul.
— George Bernard ShawI am an atheist, and I believe in the immortality of the soul.
— George Bernard Shaw