James Russell Lowell Quotes About Atheism
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It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.
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The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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