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

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.

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

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

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

I think that if you are a resolute, unswerving atheist, you have that sense that you are conscious of the God-shaped hole that has been left in the wake of any religious belief, and in a way, one is much more drawn to articulate why it is that certain places, or certain experiences, have a kind of power.