Profoundly inspirational atheist quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
Famous Atheist Quotes
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. Friedrich Nietzsche
All thinking men are atheists. Ernest Hemingway
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire
To you, I’m an atheist. To God, I’m the loyal opposition. Woody Allen
Atheism is a non prophet organization. George Carlin
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Epicurus
I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. Douglas Adams
All thinking men are atheists. Ernest Hemingway
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins
Atheism is a non prophet organization. George Carlin
She believed in nothing. Only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. Jean Paul Sartre
I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. Douglas Adams
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. Isaac Asimov
A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. Pat Buckley
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance. Neil deGrasse Tyson
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. Napoleon Bonaparte
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has every believed in. Some of us just go one god further. Richard Dawkins
Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy. Austin O’Malley
Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? Douglas Adams
Rather than say he’s an atheist, a friend of mine says, ‘I’m a tooth fairy agnostic,’ meaning he can’t disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy. Richard Dawkins
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.C.S. Lewis
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. Christopher Hitchens
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature. Emmett F. Fields
You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion. Kane
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte
I don’t want to believe. I want to know. Carl Sagan
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it Christopher Hitchens
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. C. S. Lewis
I finally decided that I’m a creature of emotion as well as reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time. Isaac Asimov
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. Isaac Asimov
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. Christopher Hitchens
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. Christopher Hitchens
Imagine that the brain is a computer and that religion is a virus. Atheism is the wiping of that virus. Nick Harding
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there’s any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all. Neil deGrasse Tyson
A man who parades his piety is one who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist. Jean De La Bruyere
I don’t profess any religion; I don’t think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or spirituality. Philip Pullman
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. St. Thomas Aquinas
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Epicurus
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper. Sam Harris
I die as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly. Voltairine de Cleyre
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. Richard K Morgan
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. Emile Zola
A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn’t exist, guess what? Neither do true friends. Scott Dikkers
If this is not atheism, to acknowledge no other deity besides dead and senseless matter, then the word has no significance. Ralph Cudworth
The Bible has noble poetry in it and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. Mark Twain
It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for. Ricky Gervais
Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man? Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty. Steve Allen
If it turns out there is a God the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. Woody Allen
We have a choice. Have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper. Sam Harris
One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad. Aleister Crowley
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. C.S. Lewis
With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil that takes religion. Seven Weinberg
I am an atheist out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Isaac Asimov
Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!’ If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept. Dan Barker
Belief is the death of intelligence. Robert Anton Wilson
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation is that good for the world? Christopher Hitchens
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. Mikhail Bakunin
I don’t want to believe. I want to know. Carl Sagan
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance. Neil deGrasse Tyson
She believed in nothing. Only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. Jean Paul Sartre
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. Edmond de Goncourt
Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do? Chuck Palahniuk
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this. Jonathan Safran Foer
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for adulthood or believing in God. Scott Dikkers
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it. Haruki Murakami
I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. I really tried to believe that, but I gotta tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize, something is fucked up. George Carlin
If it turns out there is a God the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. Woody Allen
Agnostics are just atheists without balls. Stephen Colbert
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood or believing in God. Scott Dikkers
Belief is the death of intelligence. Robert Anton Wilson
We must question the story logic of having an all knowing all powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. Gene Roddenberry
I am an atheist out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Isaac Asimov
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful. Stephen Hawking
Studied every page of this book, and didn’t find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega. Ruth Hurmence Green
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God’s infinite love. That’s the message we’re brought up with isn’t it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. Bill Hicks
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God’s infinite love. That’s the message we’re brought up with isn’t it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. Bill Hicks
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. Emile Zola
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
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. Christopher Hitchens
I finally decided that I’m a creature of emotion as well as reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time. Isaac Asimov
We must question the story logic of having an all knowing all powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames then for his own mistakes. Gene Roddenberry
The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can for me change this. Albert Einstein
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. Edmond de Goncourt
