Joshua Cohen Quotes

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

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

I don't believe in God.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

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

I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion.

Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.

I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

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

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.