Elbert Hubbard Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Ideas, Justice

• Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Ideas, Atheism, Peculiar

• Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Faith, Believe, Common Sense

• Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Believe, Mind

• Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Death, Men

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

• Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Christian, Islands, Imagination

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

• Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Atheism, Orthodoxy, Corpses

• Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Atheism, Earth, Slave

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Health & Wealth”

• Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hands, Atheism, Slavery

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

• Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Atheism, Type

• When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dark, Men, Air

• Theology is Classified Superstition.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Atheism, Superstitions, Theology

• A creed is an ossified metaphor.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Atheism, Metaphor, Creeds

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

• When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, Evil, Drunk

• God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

  Elbert Hubbard

  God, Philosophy, Atheism

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

• Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Atheism, Telling The Truth

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1904). “The Philistine”

• Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Giving, Religion, Atheism

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