Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Atheism
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
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Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.
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The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.
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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
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