Best human-nature & atheism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.”

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Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.”

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Book:The Arrogance of Power

Source: The Arrogance of Power

“One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.”

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Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature.”

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Author:John C. Wright

“Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature; he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance. Believing himself to be the slave of God, he imitates his master, and of all tyrants the worst is a slave in power.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'”

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Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.”

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Author:Robert Trivers

“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.”

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Author:Brian Aldiss

“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”

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Book:The essence of Christianity

Source: The essence of Christianity

“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.”

“Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition”

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Book:Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.”

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Author:James Bryce

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”

Source: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether you choose man-made labels like 'religious' and 'atheist', or your innate natural label gifted by Mother Nature, i.e. 'human'.”

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