Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 18

• Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.

  Anthony Collins

  Mistake, Believe, Good Friend

  Charles Bradlaugh, John Watts, Anthony Collins (2012). “Half-Hours with the Freethinkers”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.

  Anthony Collins

  Men, Self, Atheism

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• Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Rome, Differences, Atheism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.21

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• There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Europe, Atheism, World

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• He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Atheism, Knaves

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.181

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• The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Atheism, Constitution, Framed

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• To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

  Auguste Comte

  Kings, Humanity, Atheism

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• The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

  Auguste Comte

  Mind, Atheism, Proof

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• The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

  Auguste Comte

  Heaven, Atheism, Kepler

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• All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

  Auguste Comte

  Real, Atheism, Facts

  Auguste Comte (1858). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.27

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• To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

  Confucius

  People, Giving, Justice

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• The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

  Cyril Connolly

  Fall, Men, Eden

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• The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

  Joseph Conrad

  Views, Atheism, Creation

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.346, e-artnow

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• All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

  Joseph Conrad

  Hurt, Ambition, Intellectual

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1118, e-artnow

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• Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, School, Inspire

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• Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.

  Norman Cousins

  Father, Individual Choice, Choices

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• It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.

  Barbara Brandriff Crabb

  Religious, Prayer, Taken

  "Federal judge rules Day of Prayer unconstitutional". www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual's decision on whether and when to pray.

  Barbara Brandriff Crabb

  Prayer, Powerful, Government

  "Judge who struck down National Day of Prayer in an uncomfortable place: the spotlight". www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2010.

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• We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

  Walter Cronkite

  Religious, Children, Atheism

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• The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Atheism, Force

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Magick in Theory and Practice”, p.150, Lulu Press, Inc

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• We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

  Aleister Crowley

  Atheism, Pigeons, Method

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.

  Mario Cuomo

  Religious, Government, Law

  "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective". John A. O'Brien Lecture in the University of Notre Dame's Department of Theology, archives.nd.edu. September 13, 1984.

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• An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

  Clarence Darrow

  Religious, Doubt, Atheism

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.

  Clarence Darrow

  Character, Independent, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

  Clarence Darrow

  Home, Men, Atheism

  Clarence Darrow (2013). “In the Clutches of the Law: Clarence Darrow's Letters”, p.465, Univ of California Press

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