If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

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.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Atheism is having a heyday in the born-again United States.

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

It's all about secular unionism, the advancement of atheism, which they even tried to create in this law - Democrats did - an atheistic chaplaincy.

Songwriting is my gift from God.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.