All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Atheism”

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
“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.”
“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”
“Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.”
“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”
“The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.”
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.”
“That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.”
“The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.”
“Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”

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