Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 21

• 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

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

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Firsts, Immortality

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• A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Moral, Judgment

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

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Impossible, New Testament

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christian, Atheism, Foundation

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.

  Hugh Elliot

  Powerful, Atheism, Purpose

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• Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.

  Amos Elon

  Cities, Giving, Atheism

  Amos Elon (1995). “Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory”, Kodansha Globe

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• In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never served as a unifying factor. Their adherents were equally manipulated by the clergies to regard the others as wicked infidels or idolaters. The centuries passed in constant pious agitation and in frequent religious wars.

  Amos Elon

  Religious, War, Wicked

  Amos Elon (1995). “Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory”, Kodansha Globe

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• Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Men, Law, Atheism

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• Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Other Worlds, Atheism, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.269, University of Georgia Press

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• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Heart, Men

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Atheism, Warts, Shows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.81, Penguin

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• To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Miracle, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Rain, Fall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.81, Harvard University Press

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• The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Snakes, Rude, Atheism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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• Once one accepts the premise of the Declaration of Independence - that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed" - it follows that the governed must, in order to exercise their right of consent, have full freedom of expression.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Exercise, Government, Expression

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• Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Real, Expression, Issues

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• Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

  Lucretius

  Stars, Light, Atheism

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• Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Christian, War, Fighting

  Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.160, University of Toronto Press

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• Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.

  Susan Ertz

  Animal, Mind, Atheism

  Susan Ertz (1931). “The Story of Julian”, New York D. Appleton 1931.

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• 'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

  George Farquhar

  Sunday, People, Atheism

  George Farquhar (1772). “The Works of the Late Ingenious Mr. George Farquhar: Containing All His Poems, Letters, Essays and Comedies”, p.24

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• Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Sacrifice, Rights, Atheism

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