Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

  

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• If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Atheism
  • Polite
  • Pantheism