George Eliot Quotes About Atheism

• "Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

  George Eliot

  Heaven, Atheism, Helping

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.144, 谷月社

• Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

  George Eliot

  Men, Perception, Mind

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.45, 谷月社

• A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Moral, Judgment

• I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

  George Eliot

  Ideas, Atheism, Belief

• Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Impossible, New Testament

• I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

  George Eliot

  Hypocrisy, Atheism, World

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

• When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Thinking, Soul

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

• Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?

  George Eliot

  Men, Average, Careers

  George Eliot (1883). “The Essays of George Eliot”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

• Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Powerful, Growth

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.4704, ShandonPress

• My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Childhood, Sorrow

• Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Taste, Infinite

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

• God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Firsts, Immortality

• It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

  George Eliot

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Atheism, Form

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 10

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