Umberto Eco Quotes

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

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

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

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

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.

I don't believe in God.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person, for people to say they don't believe in God.

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

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

I think, living in America, we're so bombarded with God all the time that in certain ways I'm making statements against that bombardment, you know? I think it's crazy. I mean, I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I still think about it. And I still write about it.

I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I don’t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.

People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all.

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

I don't believe in God.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

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

I'm not a religious person at all.

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

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

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.

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

I don't think in terms of God.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.