George Santayana Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• 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

  Atheist, Men, Insightful

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "On My Friendly Critics" (1922)

• That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

  George Santayana

  God, Atheism, Firsts

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.126, 谷月社

• History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

  George Santayana

  Fear, Lying, People

• Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

  George Santayana

  Imagination, Religion, Atheism

• For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

  George Santayana

  Choices, Atheism, Matter

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana: Interpretations of the poetry and religion. Hamlet. Shelley. Dickens. Tragic philosophy”

• Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

  George Santayana

  God, Philosophy, Men

  George Santayana (1954). “The Life of Reason ; Or, The Phases of Human Progress. One-volume Ed”

• Fear first created the gods.

  George Santayana

  Religion, Atheism, Firsts

  George Santayana (1932). “The Life of Reason”, p.1222, Library of Alexandria

• Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.

  George Santayana

  Winter, Civilization, Long

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Character and opinion in the United States. The genteel tradition at bay. Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics. Philosophical heresy”

• It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.

  George Santayana

  Honor, Atheism, Deities

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.54, Рипол Классик

• Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.

  George Santayana

  Religious, Soul, Atheism

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.51, Рипол Классик

• Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

  George Santayana

  Giving, Healthy, Special

• Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

  George Santayana

  Atheism, Life Is, Blindness

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

• There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

  George Santayana

  Doubt, Atheism, Would Be

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

• Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

  George Santayana

  Men, Religion, Atheism

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.450, Indiana University Press

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