Atheism Quotes - Page 30

Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men have elaborated an explanation for their situation in life... Their rationales are endowed with moral qualities.

Robert E Lane

Self Esteem, Men, Ideas

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An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Errors, Born, Positive Atheism

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I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies are conducted with sensitivity and respect. Reburying relics, in my view, does not help anyone go anywhere.

Richard Leakey

Believe, Views, Important

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Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Guilt, Stones, Firsts

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Do I believe? God only knows.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Believe, Knows, I Believe

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There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Trying, Sides, Disputes

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Do not make gods in your own images.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Positive Atheism

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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

Lucretius

Lying, Mind, Quiet

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The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Mouths, Littles, Bigs

"Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Positive Atheism, Humans

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Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Darkness, Burning, Stakes

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"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Said, Young, Corpses

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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, Examination

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

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The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Men, Civilization, Suffering

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All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Miracle, Lasts, Proportion

William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1865). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.158

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Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Father, Writing, Church

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Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.

Lucretius

Rocks, Air, Frozen

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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

Abraham Lincoln

Prayer, Decree, Positive Atheism

"The World's Sages, Thinkers and Reformers". Book by D. M. Bennett, 1876.

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It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

Walter Lippmann

Class, Ideas, Radicalism

Walter Lippmann (2003). “Men of Destiny (Ppr)”, p.98, Transaction Publishers

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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

H. P. Lovecraft

Mind, Wish, Elysium

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1921.

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If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.

Lucretius

Mother, Sea, Names

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Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

Lucretius

Odds, May, Limits

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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

Lucretius

Medicine, Sick, Mind

On the Nature of Things III. 510

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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

Lucretius

Past, Evil, Criminals

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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Lucretius

Life Is, Given, Positive Atheism

'De Rerum Natura' bk. 3, l. 971

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