Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Atheism
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Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
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Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
- Born: February 22, 1788
- Died: September 21, 1860
- Occupation: Philosopher
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