Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.