Will you answer this question my fellow Atheists?

Question

Impart on me your favorite quote from philosophy, religion, non-religion, etc.

Thank You!

Answer 1

"Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one." -Richard Dawkins

"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of the astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -Carl Sagan

"When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one." -Benjamin Franklin

"If there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence." Bertrand Russell

"I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them" -Galileo (a theist but a good argument against fundies)

"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike" - McKown

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also." -Mark Twain

"I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent." Arthur C. Clarke

Answer 2

If unfastened will is mandatory for us to truly love God, what occurs in heaven? Is it conceivable to sin in heaven? (the two a definite or no answer is unsatisfactory). the place did devil come from - God might desire to have created him, yeah? Why, then? Why create something evil? Why create human beings interior the 1st place, understanding that billions might finally end up in hell? - it is not like God mandatory human beings, in spite of each little thing, he's suited yeah? If all people solutions that perhaps God needed relationships with others, say that he's already in suited courting with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Ask why there are lots of of contradictions interior the Bible - isn't God powerful adequate to maintain the Bible blunders-unfastened? Why would not God make faith much less complicated? If that's God who provides Christians their faith (John 6), how can he blame human beings for not believing in him, rather whilst it is not their fault they're born with unique sin? Can an all-powerful, omniscient God substitute his destiny ideas? Does God have unfastened will? He won't have the ability to, because of fact he knows what the destiny would be, and he knows no rely if he will substitute his ideas interior the destiny. Whaddya think of of those ones?

Answer 3

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

ps I'm a born-again agnostic

you're welcome

pps:
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama

Answer 4

Calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.

Here's a site with lots of quotes for your reading enjoyment:

Answer 5

In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.

When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
--Tao Te Ching

Answer 6

I have a few:

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” Anne Frank

“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability….To be alive is to be vulnerable.” Madeleine L’Engle

Answer 7

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Answer 8

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." - Albert Einstein

One of my favorites by far, if not my favorite.

Answer 9

Not really a Quote but a rule.
There must be an explanation (a) of the existence of any being, and (b) of any positive fact.
~Princible of Sufficient Reasoning~
Whats the explanation/cause of this negative being people call God?

Answer 10

Relish Today, Ketchup Tomorrow....


-Garfield