4 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer about atheism
- Author Arthur Schopenhauer
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In its death throes, we see religion clinging to morality, whose mother it would like to pretend to be. In vain! – genuine morality is dependent on no religion, although religion sanctions and thereby sustains it.
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- Author Arthur Schopenhauer
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Throughout the entire Christian era theism has lain like an incubus on all intellectual, especially philosophical endeavor and has prevented or stunted all progress; and when anyone has possessed the rare elasticity of mind which alone can slip free of these fetters, his writings have been burned and sometimes their author with them, as happened to Bruno and Vanini.
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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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