Alan Lightman Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Atheist Quotes

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Atheist Quotes

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Atheist Quotes , If There Is A God Quotes

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

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Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Lying Quotes

I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was gazing silently; And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien, Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye, Mixed with a quiet smile, shone calmly forth; The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs; His resolute eyes were scorched to blindness soon; His death-pang rent my heart! the insensate mob Uttered a cry of triumph, and I wept. Weep not, child! cried my mother, for that man Has said, 'There is no God.'

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Mother Quotes , Atheist Quotes

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

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All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Atheist Quotes , War Quotes

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Atheist Quotes

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Atheism Quotes

I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

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An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.

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God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Men Quotes

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

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I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Psychosis Quotes

In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Religion Quotes

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Mystery Quotes

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Believe Quotes

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

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