Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 37

• Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Other Worlds, Atheism, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.269, University of Georgia Press

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• To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Heart, Men

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Atheism, Warts, Shows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.81, Penguin

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• To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Miracle, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Rain, Fall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.81, Harvard University Press

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• The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Snakes, Rude, Atheism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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• Once one accepts the premise of the Declaration of Independence - that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed" - it follows that the governed must, in order to exercise their right of consent, have full freedom of expression.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Exercise, Government, Expression

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• Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Real, Expression, Issues

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• Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

  Lucretius

  Stars, Light, Atheism

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• Christians would show sense if they dispatched these argumentative Scotists and pigheaded Ockhamists and undefeated Albertists along with the whole regiment of Sophists to fight the Turks and Saracens instead of sending those armies of dull-witted soldiers with whom they've long been carrying on war with no result.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Christian, War, Fighting

  Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.160, University of Toronto Press

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• Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.

  Susan Ertz

  Animal, Mind, Atheism

  Susan Ertz (1931). “The Story of Julian”, New York D. Appleton 1931.

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• 'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

  George Farquhar

  Sunday, People, Atheism

  George Farquhar (1772). “The Works of the Late Ingenious Mr. George Farquhar: Containing All His Poems, Letters, Essays and Comedies”, p.24

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• Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Sacrifice, Rights, Atheism

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• Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

  Federico Fellini

  Religious, Real, Men

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• Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Religious, Political, Atheism

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.211, Northwestern University Press

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• We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion, because not only do we tolerate our religious differences, we celebrate them.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Religious, Government, Differences

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.211, Northwestern University Press

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• When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Men, Atheism, Needs

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• It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Christian, Men, Atheism

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• I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Religious, Character, Political

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• Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Ideas, Long, Atheism

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• It is as clear as the sun and as evident as the day that there is no God and that there can be none.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Atheism, Sun, There Is No God

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• Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Religious, Feelings, Atheism

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• Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Atheism, Causes, Illusion

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• I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Law, Atheism

  "Superstrings: A Theory of Everything?". Book by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, 1988.

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• As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Atheism, Able, Physics

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.116, Hachette UK

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