8 Quotes by John Stuart Mill about atheism
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The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.
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It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.
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My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
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Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong.
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It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
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There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.
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So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.
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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
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