Positive atheism Quotes by George Eliot

11 Positive atheism quotes by George Eliot

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George Eliot’s eleven concise observations explore how a secular perspective can coexist with optimism. This short collection invites readers to consider a hopeful, rational approach to life without religious framing.

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Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

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A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

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Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

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Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress…

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I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship…

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When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever…

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God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

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I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was…

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My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who…

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"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the…

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Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of…

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…

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Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

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Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from…

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“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

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“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out…

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“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…

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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

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“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

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“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells…

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Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…

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