Atheism Quotes - Page 34

• Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

  Lucretius

  Brother, Hate, Avenging

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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• Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.

  Lucretius

  Eye, Men, Dust

  Lucretius (2011). “On the Nature of Things”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

  Lucretius

  Light, Darkness, Positive Atheism

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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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• Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

  Lucretius

  Fall, Atoms, Sun

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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• With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Doctrine, Philosopher, Ancient

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• The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Religious, Errors, Stronger

  "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 60, 1843.

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• If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Odd, Positive Atheism, Ifs

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Demand, Patterns, Cowardice

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• Do I believe? God only knows.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Believe, Knows, I Believe

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• Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Rays, May, Reason

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.39, 谷月社

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• What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Believe, Ifs, I Believe

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• Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Past, May, Forget

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• I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Suicide, Religious

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• From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Looks, Purpose, Moments

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.7, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Men, Warfare

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wall, Hate, Hypocrite

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.67, 德威國際文化

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• Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Simple, Thinking, Sound

  Christopher Marlowe (1826). “The works of Christopher Marlowe”, p.294

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• I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of language or darkening of its meanings can I be made to have any thing whatever in common with them about religious matters... they must take my word for it that there is nothing in common between their theology and my philosophy.

  Harriet Martineau

  Religious, Philosophy, Believe

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.101, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

  Harriet Martineau

  Book, Miracle, Complaining

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.233

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• My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

  Harriet Martineau

  Christian, Feelings, Suffering

  Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman (2010). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography”, p.444, Cambridge University Press

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• The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  School, Safety, Church

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• I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.149, Diversion Books

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• The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Ineffable, Mystic, Unspeakable

  The Moon and Sixpence Ch. 1

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• The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Artist, Criminals, Limits

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