Atheism Quote by George Meredith Download Open image “The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.” — George Meredith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism He man Lends Lends Priests Man Mind Men Mind Mind Lends Priests Psychology
The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one… — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
“Even a man who makes the most modest pretensions to integrity must know that a theologian, a priest, a pope of today not only… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass,… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image