George Eliot Quotes about Atheism

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Heaven help us, said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

George Eliot

Heaven, Atheism, Helping

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.144, 谷月社

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

George Eliot

Mistake, Atheism, Form

'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 10

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

George Eliot

Ideas, Atheism, Belief

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

George Eliot

Atheism, Firsts, Immortality

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

George Eliot

Men, Thinking, Atheism