Atheism Quote by James Henry Breasted Download Open image “Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.” — James Henry Breasted ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Born Dreams Hebrew Judaism Men Moral Nations Positive atheism Thousand Thousand years Two Vision Years
We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Here, in the Land of Israel, we returned and built a nation. Here, in the Land of Israel, we established a State. The Land… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
“Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days. Man is explicable by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We have taken Herodotus as an interesting specimen of what we have called the free intelligence of mankind. Now here we are dealing with… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Christians have been beaten, whipped, starved, humiliated, mutilated, tortured, hung, burned at the stake, crucified, and fed to lions; yet two thousand years after… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Israel was born so Jews could finally cultivate their land with their own hands. But the most important thing to remember is that we… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“We live in a world of pomp and muscle, of strutting that glorifies jet thrust and far-flying warheads. It is the same kind of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“At the risk of oversimplification, the unifying theme of the Hebrew scripture is one of forging a national identity connected to God through a… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Here we see the word "brain" occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“With the consolidation under Menes it was already an institution of great age, and over four centuries of development which then followed, had at… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Not all the gods who appear in these tales and fancies became more than mythological figures. Many of them continued merely in this role,… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Keb and Nut were the father and mother of the four divinities, Osiris and Isis, Set and Nephthys; together they formed with their primeval… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself… — James Henry Breasted 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