All GEORGE ELIOT Quotes about “Atheism”

“"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.”
“Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.”
“It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.”
“A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.”
“I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.”
“Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?”
“I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.”
“When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.”
“Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?”
“Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.”
“My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.”
“Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.”
“God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.”
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”

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