14829 | Homer so enjoys the company of the gods that he must have been deeply irreligious [Homer, by Nietzsche] |
407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |
408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |
5956 | Anaxagoras was charged with impiety for calling the sun a lump of stone [Anaxagoras, by Plutarch] |
7488 | Anaxagoras was the first recorded atheist [Anaxagoras, by Watson] |
1551 | He said he didn't know whether there are gods - but this is the same as atheism [Diogenes of Oen. on Protagoras] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |
338 | Socrates is accused of denying the gods, saying sun is stone and moon is earth [Socrates, by Plato] |
1543 | He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus] |
535 | The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus] |
278 | If astronomical movements are seen as necessary instead of by divine will, this leads to atheism [Plato] |
149 | There isn't a single reason for positing the existence of immortal beings [Plato] |
2632 | Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero] |
3029 | Stilpo said if Athena is a daughter of Zeus, then a statue is only the child of a sculptor, and so is not a god [Stilpo, by Diog. Laertius] |
2639 | Some say Epicurus only pretended to believe in the gods, so as not to offend Athenians [Epicurus, by Cicero] |
5731 | Why does Jupiter never hurl lightning from a blue sky? [Lucretius] |
2641 | Why believe in gods if you have never seen them? [Cicero] |
5957 | Absurd superstitions make people atheist, not disharmony in nature [Plutarch] |
22728 | Gods were invented as watchers of people's secret actions [Sext.Empiricus] |
22737 | An incorporeal God could do nothing, and a bodily god would perish, so there is no God [Sext.Empiricus] |
3660 | Atheism arises from empiricism, because God is intangible [Descartes] |
16712 | Atheism is an atrocious and intolerable crime in any country [Descartes] |
7836 | In Spinoza, one could substitute 'nature' or 'substance' for the word 'God' throughout [Spinoza, by Stewart,M] |
7842 | Leibniz was closer than Spinoza to atheism [Leibniz, by Stewart,M] |
19453 | If love, goodness and personality are human, the God who is their source is anthropomorphic [Feuerbach] |
2887 | I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct [Nietzsche] |
2931 | God is dead, and we have killed him [Nietzsche] |
2906 | By denying God we deny human accountability, and thus we redeem the world [Nietzsche] |
18298 | Not being a god is insupportable, so there are no gods! [Nietzsche] |
7626 | I do not believe in a personal God [Einstein] |
5207 | If theism is non-sensical, then so is atheism. [Ayer] |
15295 | Theism is supposed to make the world more intelligible - and should offer results [Harré/Madden] |
8243 | Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement [Deleuze/Guattari] |
23061 | Free atheism should start by questioning its faith in humanity [Gray] |
19658 | Now that the absolute is unthinkable, even atheism is just another religious belief (though nihilist) [Meillassoux] |