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An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. --Franklin P. Jones

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial...an agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. --Bertrand Russell

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. --Francis Bacon

By night an atheist half believes in God. --Edward Young

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. --Euripides

I am an atheist still, thank God. --Luis Buñuel

I am an atheist, thank God! --Anonymous

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose. --Clarence Darrow

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. --Clarence S. Darrow

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion is anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it. --Bertrand Russell

If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts. --Bertrand Russell

Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving: it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. --Thomas Paine

Is there not something a trifle absurd in the spectacle of human beings holding a mirror before themselves, and thinking what they behold so excellent as to prove that a Cosmic Purpose must have been aiming at it all along? --Bertrand Russell

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. --Harriet Beecher Stowe

Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God. --Heywood Broun

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. --Michel De Montaigne

Science is in its essence nothing but the systematic pursuit of knowledge, and knowledge, whatever ill-uses bad men make of it, is in its essence good. To lose faith in knowledge is to lose faith in the best of man's capacities; and therefore I repeat unhesitatingly that the unyielding rationalist has a better faith and a more unbending optimism than any of the timid seekers after the childish comforts of a less adult age. --Bertrand Russell

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy. --Jonathan Swift

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. --Dante Rossetti

There are no atheists in the foxholes. --William Cummings

They now have a 900 number for atheists. When you call, nobody answers and you get charged for the call. --Anonymous

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