James Russell Lowell Quotes About Atheism

Quotes about: Atheism

• Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Law, Atheism

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

• It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Real, Atheism

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Letters”

• Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

  James Russell Lowell

  Order, Police, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

• To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hate, Lying, Love Is

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.111

• The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Real, Lying, Blessed

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1199, Delphi Classics

• It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

  James Russell Lowell

  Song, Spring, Gun

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

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