David Eagleman Quotes

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

God doesn't believe in atheists.

I think the appropriate response for a physicist is: 'I do not find the concept of God very interesting, because I cannot test it.'

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

When you destroy people's religious expression, they will establish secularized religions like Marxism.

Religion is a species of mental disease.

We should exclude murderous atheists, who would pull down Church and state; religion and God; morality and happiness .... When they smile, I see blood trickling down their faces; I see their insidious purposes; I see that the object of all their cajoling is—blood! I now warn my countrymen to beware of these execrable philosophers, whose only object it is to destroy every thing that is good here, and to establish immorality and murder by precept and example.

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.