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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.

— George Santayana

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Simone Weil

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

— James Buchan

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

— Brad Pitt

We are all atheists.

— Kenny Hickey

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

— Christopher Hitchens

Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.

— Lynn Coady

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

— Annie Besant

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

— Augustus Hare

✗Opposing Perspectives

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

— Israel Zangwill