Best Subtle Atheist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.”

Source: The Age of Reason, etc

“Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.”

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“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.”

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Book:Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.”

“In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."”

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”

“God is subtle but he is not malicious.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“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?”

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”

Source: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.”

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Book:Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Source: Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”

“The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”

Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

“The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.”

Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume

“Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.”

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Book:Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume

Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume

“Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.”

Source: God is Not Great

“I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.”

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Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.”

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

“Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea of what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge. Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.”

Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume

“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)

“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”

“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?”

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Book:Hitchens vs Blair

Source: Hitchens vs Blair

“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.”

Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume

“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.”

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Book:God is Not Great

Source: God is Not Great

“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?”

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Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.”

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Book:The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.”

“Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.”

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