John Locke Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

  John Locke

  Men, Atheism, Church

• One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

  John Locke

  Love, Truth, Science

  As paraphrased in "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 500), 1979.

• Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

  John Locke

  Atheist, Promise, Atheism

  John Locke, David Wootton (1993). “Locke: Political Writings”, p.426, Hackett Publishing

• Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

  John Locke

  Atheism, Credit, Reason

  John Locke (1825). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author”

• I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

  John Locke

  Lying, Government, Atheism

  John Locke (1796). “A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.10

• As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.

  John Locke

  Law, Atheism, Church

  John Locke (2012). “A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts Revised and Edited with Variants and an Introduction”, p.65, Springer Science & Business Media

• The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

  John Locke

  Soul, Atheism, Care

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.246, CUP Archive

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