George Santayana Quotes about Atheism

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Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

George Santayana

Imagination, Religion, Atheism

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

George Santayana

Atheism, Life Is, Blindness

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.

George Santayana

Religious, Soul, Atheism

George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.51, Рипол Классик

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

George Santayana

God, Atheism, Firsts

George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.126, 谷月社

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

George Santayana

Men, Religion, Atheism

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.450, Indiana University Press

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

George Santayana

Doubt, Atheism, Would Be

George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.

George Santayana

Honor, Atheism, Deities

George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.54, Рипол Классик