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David Foster Wallace1 quote
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. — David Foster Wallace · 2005Francis Bacon1 quote
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon · 1625Friedrich Nietzsche1 quote
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882George Orwell1 quote
He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him). — George Orwell · 1933George Santayana1 quote
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 · 1922Heywood Broun1 quote
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. — Heywood Broun · 1939James Joyce1 quote
It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. — James Joyce · 1915Richard Dawkins1 quote
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. — Richard Dawkins · 1999Samuel Beckett1 quote
Let us pray to God... The bastard! He doesn't exist! — Samuel Beckett · 1957