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George Santayana (More Info) (1863-1952) |
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"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests." |
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"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far." |
Source: The Life of Reason - 1905 |
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Jean-Paul Sartre (More Info) (1905-1980) |
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"Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing." |
Source: Existentialism and Humanism - 1945 |
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"The existentialist... thinks it very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears along with Him; there can no longer be an a priori Good, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it. Nowhere is it written that the Good exists, that we must be honest, that we must not lie; because the fact is we are on a plane where there are only men. Dostoievsky said, "If God didn’t exist, everything would be possible." That is the very starting point of existentialism. Indeed, everything is permissible if God does not exist, and as a result man is forlorn, because neither within him nor without does he find anything to cling to. He can’t start making excuses for himself." |
Source: Existentialism and Humanism - 1945 |
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"There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point." |
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George Bernard Shaw (More Info) (1856-1950) |
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"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." |
Source: The Preface to Androcles and the Lion - 1912 |
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Mark Twain (More Info) (1835-1910) |
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"There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad." |
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Gore Vidal (More Info) (Born 1925) |
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"I'm a born-again atheist." |
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