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Atheism10 quotes
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 · 1882We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. — Richard Dawkins · 1999A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon · 1625In 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 · 2005Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. — Heywood Broun · 1939He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him). — George Orwell · 1933All 10 quotes →Existence of God3 quotes
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 · 1882The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. — Psalm 14:1 · 450 BCLet us pray to God... The bastard! He doesn't exist! — Samuel Beckett · 1957God2 quotes
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 · 1882Let us pray to God... The bastard! He doesn't exist! — Samuel Beckett · 1957Decline of religion1 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 · 1882Faith1 quote
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon · 1625Human nature1 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 · 1882Man and the universe1 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 · 1922Nature of God1 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 · 2005Philosophy1 quote
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon · 1625Prayer1 quote
Let us pray to God... The bastard! He doesn't exist! — Samuel Beckett · 1957Religion1 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 · 1915Worship1 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 · 2005