Herbert Spencer Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

  Herbert Spencer

  Hero, Political, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.461

• Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Atheism, Equal

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.522, VM eBooks

• Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence.

  Herbert Spencer

  People, Ignorant, Atheism

• The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

  Herbert Spencer

  Health, Exercise, Atheism

  1861 Education, ch.4.

• The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

  Herbert Spencer

  Emotional, Intellectual, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1904). “An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer”

• The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Soul, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”

• There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

  Herbert Spencer

  Dream, Afterlife, Ideas

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Passages from the Philosophy of Herbert Spencer”

• The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

  Herbert Spencer

  Ideas, Atheism, Spirit

• Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

  Herbert Spencer

  Kings, Mean, Divine Right

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.124

• The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

  Herbert Spencer

  Ideas, Atheism, Matter

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “First Principles: Great Philosopher”, p.304, 北戴河出版

• Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

  Herbert Spencer

  Play, Atheism, Guidance

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.518

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