Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Atheism, Belief, Positive Atheism

• The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Lying, Mind, Atheism

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

• The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Religious, Light, Hands

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

• Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Atheist, Real, Errors

• Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Apology, Atheism, Faults

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