By night an atheist half believes a God.
Atheism Quotes
The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many believe in no God at all.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. (Psalms 14:1)
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith… and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me […]
How will unbelief look in the flames of hell? There are no infidels anywhere but on earth! There are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice, for “the devils believe and tremble.” And there are some of the devil’s children […]
Mrs. Turner tells me that Mr. Will Pen (sic), who is lately come over from Ireland, is a Quaker again, or some very melancholy thing; that he cares for no company, nor comes into any – which is a pleasant thing, after his being abroad so long – and his father such a hypocritical rogue, […]
I think that in philosophical strictness at the level where one doubts the existence of material objects and holds that the world may have existed for only five minutes, I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do not think the existence of the Christian God […]
The opinions of the village atheist are as fundamentalist as anything any Baptist ever believed.
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.
I was told that the Chinese said that they would would bury me by the Western lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very “chic” for an atheist.
