Carl Sagan Quotes

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

I'm a born - again atheist.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.