“We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.” MenWayHumansSeemsForceStarsPrayerHuman BeingsSeaAtheismPositive AtheismInvisibleWildernessMelville Author:Maxine Greene
“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.” IfsWorldGivingMindLongMotherNamesSeaAtheismDecidedRoundsCarefulPositive AtheismSuperstitionsCornLiquorBacchusNeptuneRound World Author:Lucretius
“When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.” DoeWaterPrayerViolenceSeaAtheismWindCaughtPositive AtheismDrivenSupremeChiefsPanicCaught UpBreezeCraveVowHurricanesFuriousLegionAdmiral Author:Lucretius
“Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present. They have been accustomed to move and to meet in all manner of ways. For this reason, it came to pass that being spread abroad through a vast time and trying every sort of combination and motion, at length those come together that produce great things, like earth and sea and sky and the generation of living creatures.” WayShouldTryingHas BeensReasonEarthTogetherMovingOrderGenerationsSeaSkyAtheismDesignProduceParticularCreaturesShould HaveWeightInfiniteBlowSpreadPositive AtheismGreat ThingsCombinationLengthAtomsAccustomedLiving CreaturesSea And SkyInfinite Time Author:Lucretius
“You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!” I CanWaterSeaAtheismDangerWindPositive AtheismBitterPleasantFancyShoreWrecksBudBuffetsMurmuring Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson
“The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?” SpiritWaterSeaAtheismPositive AtheismFleshTidesBeing Positive Book:The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.” MindReasonMightWaterHalfSeaAtheismPositive AtheismGatesRidiculeApostlesKeepersJestProfaneApostolicOmitting Author:Charles Bradlaugh
“It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.” ThinkingLawTakenBloodSeaAtheismPositive AtheismIdolsDespotism Author:Voltaire
“Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.” FirstsBelieveEndsEarthTogetherI BelieveWonderfulSeaAtheismPositive AtheismSurfaceWormsCliffsAcres Book:The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989