atheism

Atheism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.

42 thinkers1,767 quotesTop field: Philosophy

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."

Stephen Hawking· b. 1942View quote →

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"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."

"Spectator sports make people more passive, because you're not doing them—you're watching somebody doing them."

"Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems."

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🇺🇸Christopher Hitchens

Philosophy

atheism

1949–2011

"Peace through Strength," surely history's most exploded nostrum."

"The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice."

"Steven Pinker Multimedia. Extensive lists of audio and video files"

"It seems to me that if God had intended for you to cover your face then, in His wisdom, He would have provided you with a flap of skin for the purpose."

"Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward."

"Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them."

"I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept."

"An art thief is a man who takes pictures."

"The New Divinity" from Essays of a Humanist"

"The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war."

"The word "philosophy" carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird."

"The entire Party and country should wake up, throw into the ﬂames and twist the neck of any one who tramples underfoot the sacred law of the Party in defense of the rights of women and girls."

"Johann Hari's columns in The Independent"

"If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them."

"When Warraq speaks of science, he allows that it is in this domain that "we come at last to the true greatness of Islamic civilization" ... But Warraq argues that it was despite Islam that Islamic science developed."

"Sir, there is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out."

"Ingels: "Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power."

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🇮🇳Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

Social Activism

atheism

1902–1975

"Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life."

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🇫🇷Claude Adrien Helvétius

Philosophy

atheism

1715–1771

"…there are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue, which men in general have for riches and honours."

"The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me."

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🇺🇸George William Foote

Journalism

atheism

1850–1915

"It will yet be the proud boast of woman that she never contributed a line to the Bible."

"A genius is just a mentally ill person with an audience."

"The more debt we owe, the wealthier we are."

"To compare the patronizing pedantry of A Course in Miracles with any line or two from the New Testament gospels is like comparing a washing machine repair manual with Shakespeare."

"Consciousness is the biggest mystery. It may be the largest outstanding obstacle in our quest for a scientific understanding of the universe."

"The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics."

"You have options. You can either continue to be miserable or you can just stop being angry at everyone and accept the way things are. Allow yourself to live."

"Living with kids is like living in a frat house... everything's broken, nobody sleeps, and there's alot of throwing up"

"People know what they love … Even those whose lives are floundering. If they're directionless, it's not because they lack knowledge of what they want. It's because they lack the courage to acknowledge that they want it."

"We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A clock."

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🇺🇸Thomas J. J. Altizer

Religion

atheism

1927–2018

"No suffering can be foreign to a Christian, not even the anguish that comes with the loss of God."

"My first thesis is that identity is unitary."

"There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist."

"If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure."

"Dacre is, all those who have had the misfortune to work for him assure me, just about as loathsome, self-regarding, morally putrid, vengeful and disgusting a man as it possible to be."

"Ernestine Rose: A Defence of Atheism: A lecture delivered in Mercantile Hall, Boston on 10 April, 1861, Published in 1881."

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Notable Quotes

"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."

— Michel Foucault, b. 1926View →

"I think computer viruses should count as life … I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

— Stephen Hawking, b. 1942View →

": In 2008, Hawking stated, "The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws."

— Stephen Hawking, b. 1942View →

"On seeing the Enterprise's warp engine while visiting the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation (where he would briefly play himself in the 1993 episode Descent, Part I), Hawking smiled and said: I'm working on that."

— Stephen Hawking, b. 1942View →

"I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street"

— Stephen Hawking, b. 1942View →

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