Atheism Quote by James A. Baldwin

“A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.”

James A. Baldwin

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One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.

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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

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The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

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The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys…

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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this,…

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely…

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The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped…

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I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

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Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be…

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An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or…

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From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

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“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart…

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

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Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in…

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

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The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

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God speaks through me.

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A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it…

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You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

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Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

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