Andy Rooney Quotes

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

Saying that you don't believe in magic but do believe in god is a bit like saying you don't have sex with dogs, except labradors.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Religion is an irrational construct.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Magic happens, see. It's just like on those bumper stickers, the ones that say, 'Miracles Happen', or 'Jesus Happens'. I never really took those too seriously. I mean, they're bumper stickers. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. Miracles? Right. Jesus? Maybe. But magic?

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

I'm not, like - what's the word when you believe in a lot of magic? Superstitious.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, Druids, Shintoists, Wiccans, and so on. To put a spin on the old saying, it's okay if you don't believe in angels. We believe in you.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on what to do in a world without God: It opines that truly being present in the world‚ experiencing and hanging out with your loved ones, provides all the significance you could want.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist. I think religion does a lot for us but I can't quite believe it, alas... It's just a personal choice. I love the idea of heaven though. Who doesn't? It's lovely.

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.