Atheist/Agnostic/Spiritual/Science Quote Compilation

This is a collection of quotes regarding atheism, agnosticism, some of spirituality, and some of science. Please don't sit here and flame me or the quotes. If you have anything to add please feel free to add on!

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. - Henri Poincare

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation. - Emma Goldman

1. Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers
2. Too stupid to understand science? Try religion
3. There's a reason why atheists don't fly planes into buildings
4. "worship me or you will suffer forever" - Love god
5. Even if your god was real, I wouldn't trust him

Christianity : A man in the sky said "I'm bored so im gonna make a planet" and existence began.

Atheist: Nothing exploded and thats how existence began.

"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." - Don Hirschberg

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. - Jean-Paul Sarte

Bertrand Russell was asked what he would say if he died and found himself confronted by God, demanding to know why Russell had not believed in him. 'Not enough evidence, God, not enough evidence' was Russell's reply.

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." - John Adams

â??You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friendâ?� - Richard Jeni

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein

"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies." - Benjamin Franklin

"Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men." - Voltaire

"I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of faith."
- Doug McLeod

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth." - H. L. Mencken

How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't. - Noam Chomsky

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God. - Don Henley

The direct use of force is such a poor solution that it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. - David Friedman

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. - Christopher Hitchens

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. - G.K. Chesterton

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. - William Blake

Doubt is not a pleasant condition,
but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. - Frak Zappa

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Caral Sagan

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. - Benjamin Franklin

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. - Richard Dawkins

Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."
--Ferdinand Magellan

Bobby Henderson states, 'I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence.'

Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together. - Glenn Beck

If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief. - Richard A. Posner

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist. - Jane Wagner

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God
who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei

God exists, hes just afk.

You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

God is the absolute truth - GWF Hegel

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom.
In all societies women are oppressed by all religions. - Taslima Nasrin

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."
- Chapman Cohen

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan

The most heinous crimes have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. - Gandhi

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labelling our ignorance "God". - Jerry Coyne

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to the gods, then knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them. - Baron D'Holbach

If any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.--1 Cor.14:38

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an atheist and a dyslexic?
A: A guy who lays in bed, looking at the ceiling, wondering if there's a dog.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - Delo McKown

Religion is excellent for keeping the common people quiet. - Napoleon Bonaparte

"As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers" - Robert G. Ingersoll

In no instance have the church ever been guardians of the liberties of the people. - James Madison

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." - Benjamin Franklin

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. - GK Chesterton

Paul Bell from the Mensa Society concluded, of the 43 studies carried out since 1927 on the relationship between religious belief and one's intelligence and/or education level, all but four found an inverse connection. That is, the higher one's intelligence or education level, the less one is likely to be religious. Religiousity is indeed negatively correlated with education and interest in science and political liberalism. Sociologists have found that only one in twelve British children break away from their paren'ts beliefs.

Im a militant agnostic:
I don't know and you don't either.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ~William McFee

Our ignorance is God; What we know is science. - Nietzsche

Atheism: A non-prophet organization.

I'm not an Atheist. How could you NOT believe in something that doesn't exist? - Whitney Brown

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx

I think that God, in creating Man, somewhat over estimated his own ability. - Oscar Wilde

"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned."

"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers."
- Denis Diderot

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests. -George Santayana

Prayer has no place in public school, just like facts have no place in organized religion. - Superintendent Chalmers

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime, give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

a little boy wanted a bike really bad so he prayed everyday but no bike ever came. he thought and thought and eventually came up with a great idea. he stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness

Think for yourself and question authority. - Timothy Leary

Deal with reality, or reality will deal with you.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. - Sigmund Freud

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
-Seneca the Younger 4 b.c.- 65 a.d.

Morality is doing what is right no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told no matter what is right.

Religious leaders will always avail themeselves of public ignorance for their own purpose. - Thomas Jefferson

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions. - Richard A. Posner

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. - Isaac Asimov

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - I. Kant

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow (Scopes trial)

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. - Richard Dawkins

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help? - Dan Barker

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov

Truth in matters of religion is simply the opinion that has survived. - Oscar Wilde

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

He who lives as children live -- who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance -- remains childlike. - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else."

If you value faith over science, next time you get sick skip the hospital... Go to church instead.

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence." - Bertrand Russell

If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite. - Dennis McKinsey

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
- Stephen Roberts

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

Would god favor dishonestly faked belief in him? or honest skepticism?

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
- Epicurus

Why is God considered an explanation for anything? It's not - it's a failure to explain, a shrug of the shoulders, an 'I dunno' dressed up in spirituality and ritual. If someone credits something to God, generally what it means is that they haven't a clue so they're attributing it to an unreachable, unknowable sky-fairy. Ask for an explanation of where that bloke came from, and odds are you'll get a vague, pseudo-philosophical reply about having always existed, or being outside nature. Which, of course, explains nothing.

Humans are the only ones with religion because they are the only ones who have brains that can imagine things that don't exist.

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. - George W. Foote

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"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is crazy (cause he sees things)." - Me

Magellan quote is not authentic

The quote is a fabrication of Robert Green Ingersoll. It is found in his essay â??Individuality.â?� This may be accessed at Individuality

Itâ??s in the fourth paragraph of his essay:

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, â?? some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, â??The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.â?� On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.

This was first pointed out, as far as I know, by Dr. Tom Gorski in his website â??Knowing What Ainâ??t Soâ?� at http://www.churchoffreethought.org/c...010&GROUP=048. Dr. Gorski is one of four founders of the The North Texas Church of Freethought.

There are over a hundred sites on the Web with this bogus quote. I hope we all begin to exercise some form of self-correction and cite the real author of those words, Ingersoll.

I might point out the Church leading minds were divided on the issue of earth's sphericity although its brighter minds leaned towards its being round. What the Church advanced as dogma was the notion the Earth was center of the universe which we know is awfully wrong. It must be pointed out as well that most educated minds since classical times, thousands of years before Magellan's voyage had already calculated with uncommon accuracy the diameter of a round earth.

Vicente Calibo de Jesus [email protected]

thanks for the eye-opener, wouldn't want bogus quotes!

yea my problem is the general public now too with church dogma, I don't deny the existence of god but I sure don't like it's religious dogmas that follow

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Originally Posted by Revanche21

â??You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friendâ?� - Richard Jeni

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Great list! sometimes I wonder how people over the course of time have died in the name of GOD. was it worth it?

-The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT that will deliver mental emancipation- Anton LaVey

eh....got many more, but my last 3 brain cells haven't lined up yet....post more later....
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Originally Posted by Revanche21

Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.

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NOW TESTIFY, UGH!

I love Rage so goddamn much.