Terry Pratchett Quotes

That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your conduct. And it's the yes to that question that applies to 40% of scientists. So, there're plenty of atheists who are scientists or not scientists. There maybe a conflict but many people in this country coexist in both worlds.

I'm not an atheist. I do have faith in God. I do not judge people for their faith. I judge people who use religion to hurt people. I don't believe in a religion that shuns people for their beliefs, or that you should hurt people for their beliefs.

In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.

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.

Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I'm an atheist.

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

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

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

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.