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"Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one."
"An atheist has got one point beyond the devil."
"God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them."
"Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have a continued presence on earth, humankind will reevaluate its sense of place in the world and modify its strong species-centric stewardship of the planet. Our collective concepts of morality and ethics have a direct impact on our species' ultimate fate."
"See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly."
"I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist."
"Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!"
"A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage."
"The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition."
"I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot)."
"If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist."
"I would not say that ethical behavior is not possible for the atheist or agnostic. It is. A couple of pretty good examples are Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, I will have to say that if we take the human lot as a whole, these two men must be seen as exceptions."
