Melissa Auf der Maur Quotes

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

I have noticed that many who do not believe in God believe in everything else, even in the evil eye.

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

Atheists are pious people.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

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

I'm tolerant of believers, but I'm agnostic. I'm curious to see how scientists will integrate the near-death experience into their research and if it will be explained.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

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

I am not the opposite of theism. I am right in the middle of those non-believers and believers. It's not even about being agnostic or nastik. Why would I take a name given to me by my opposition? I am just a rationalist.

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

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

I don't believe in God.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

I'm not a religious person at all.

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.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.