Ernesto Cardenal Quotes

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

Ernesto Cardenal

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• Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • God
  • Faith
  • Impossible

• The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• Those to whom his word was revealed were always alone in some remote place, like Moses. There wasn't anyone else around when Mohammed got the word either. Mormon Joseph Smith and Christian Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy, had exclusive audiences with God. We have to trust them as reporters--and you know how reporters are. They'll do anything for a story.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • God
  • Alone
  • Trust

• Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Affirmation

• Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Fear

• Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Atheism

• To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Truth
  • Christian
  • Foundation

• No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

  

  Zeno of Citium
  • World
  • Men
  • Bad

• To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Believe
  • Atheism
  • Would Be

• Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • God
  • Men
  • Nature

• All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Society
  • Eyes
  • Kind

• Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Art
  • Society
  • Individual

• Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny fraction of that many deaths on its conscience. There are scientists who will admit that there's not one iota of scientific evidence to support it.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • Support
  • Religion
  • Atheism

• That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • History
  • Education
  • Atheism

• If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Why
  • Religion

• A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Universe
  • Atheist
  • Atheism

• When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Should
  • Atheism

• Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Disease
  • Atheism

• By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Atheism
  • Guilt

• It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.

  

  Michael Eisner
  • Matter
  • Going
  • Disney

• Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Impact
  • Bodies
  • Heat

• What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • Atheism
  • Negation
  • Name Of God