Oscar Wilde Quotes About Atheism

• No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Atheism

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.219, University of Chicago Press

• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fear, Self, Shining

• When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Thinking, Despair

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

• The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Atheism, Vices, Sincerity

• The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Men, Two

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.84, Oscar Wilde

• Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Passion, Self

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.109, Wordsworth Editions

• Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Fashion, Religious

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.453, Oxford University Press on Demand

• The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Atheism, Age

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1618, Delphi Classics

• To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fear, Exercise, Power

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