Alexander Pope Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Alexander Pope

  Wisdom, Fear, Angel

  An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)

• Now hollow fires burn out to black,
  And lights are fluttering low:
  Square your shoulders, lift your pack
  And leave your friends and go.
  O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
  Look not to left nor right:
  In all the endless road you tread
  There's nothing but the night.

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Night, Fire

• Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Butterfly, Atheism

• Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

  Alexander Pope

  Atheism, Looks, Privacy

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 331

• Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
  A being darkly wise and rudely great...
  He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest;
  In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;
  In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
  Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Fear, Doubt

  Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.18

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