Top 15 George Holyoake Quotes (2024 Update)

George Holyoake Quote: “Lord Brougham has said that ’a mind uninformed is better than a mind misinformed.”

1. “Lord Brougham has said that ’a mind uninformed is better than a mind misinformed.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.”

2. “There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.”

3. “I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “I hope, says Mr. Grote, in his great history of Greece, in a memorable passage that ought not to die out of recollection, ‘I hope, when I come to the lives of Socrates and Plato, to illustrate one of the most valuable of their principles, that conscious and confessed ignorance is a better state of mind than the fancy without the reality of knowledge.”

4. “I hope, says Mr. Grote, in his great history of Greece, in a memorable passage that ought not to die out of recollection, ‘I hope, when I come to the lives of Socrates and Plato, to illustrate one of the most valuable of their principles, that conscious and confessed ignorance is a better state of mind than the fancy without the reality of knowledge.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “Cosmism, a thoughtful name, which ought to supersede Atheism in the future, neither denies nor affirms the existence of Deity. It waits for explanation and proof. It admits there is evidence of something, but what that something is, does not appear. There is evidence of more than we know, but what that is we do not know, and it is dishonesty to use a term respecting it, which pretends that we do know.”

5. “Cosmism, a thoughtful name, which ought to supersede Atheism in the future, neither denies nor affirms the existence of Deity. It waits for explanation and proof. It admits there is evidence of something, but what that something is, does not appear. There is evidence of more than we know, but what that is we do not know, and it is dishonesty to use a term respecting it, which pretends that we do know.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “Theism is the negation of Nature. It is a species of impiety towards nature, and supplants, by an artificial superstition, the instinctive reverence of the human heart.”

6. “Theism is the negation of Nature. It is a species of impiety towards nature, and supplants, by an artificial superstition, the instinctive reverence of the human heart.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.”

7. “If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.”

8. “Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “The Church is a cell, and the creed is a cage. The cage is lighter, more airy, and less repulsive than the cell, but the imprisonment is complete in both.”

9. “The Church is a cell, and the creed is a cage. The cage is lighter, more airy, and less repulsive than the cell, but the imprisonment is complete in both.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “The popular theology, it must be owned, has many repulsive aspects. The vulgarest and most illiterate believer is encouraged to profess a familiar and confident knowledge, hidden from the profoundest philosophers. It is an unanswerable position, that had God spoken, the universe would have been convinced.”

10. “The popular theology, it must be owned, has many repulsive aspects. The vulgarest and most illiterate believer is encouraged to profess a familiar and confident knowledge, hidden from the profoundest philosophers. It is an unanswerable position, that had God spoken, the universe would have been convinced.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “Too many words are the locusts of the mind, which darken the air of the understanding and eat up our meaning.”

11. “Too many words are the locusts of the mind, which darken the air of the understanding and eat up our meaning.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “A definition is a map, but it is not the journey.”

12. “A definition is a map, but it is not the journey.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “Man is forgiven who believes more than his neighbours, but he is never forgiven if he believes less.”

13. “Man is forgiven who believes more than his neighbours, but he is never forgiven if he believes less.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “Mere negations give all advantage to superstition; error seems wisdom and wealth when truth is silent.”

14. “Mere negations give all advantage to superstition; error seems wisdom and wealth when truth is silent.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “It is delusive to pull down the altar of superstition and not erect an altar of science in its place. To pack up the household gods of superstition and leave the fireside bare, will hardly do... Affirmative Atheism must teach that nature is the Bible of truth, work is worship, that duty is dignity, and the unselfish service of others consolation.”

15. “It is delusive to pull down the altar of superstition and not erect an altar of science in its place. To pack up the household gods of superstition and leave the fireside bare, will hardly do... Affirmative Atheism must teach that nature is the Bible of truth, work is worship, that duty is dignity, and the unselfish service of others consolation.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “Mere Atheism inculcates freedom and intrepidity of the understanding, but may land you in negation, in dogmatism, in denunciation, in irreverence. These are the chasms that lie in the path of mere Atheism.”

16. “Mere Atheism inculcates freedom and intrepidity of the understanding, but may land you in negation, in dogmatism, in denunciation, in irreverence. These are the chasms that lie in the path of mere Atheism.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “Had Deity desired that his personal existence should be daily recognised and eternally bruited abroad among men, he would have placarded the fact on the walls of nature in letters of light – so luminous, that time should never pale them; so indelibly, that the war of elements should never efface them; so plainly and conclusively, that no priest should ever be able to misconstrue them; and no wayfarer, in this hurrying world, ever be in doubt about them.”

17. “Had Deity desired that his personal existence should be daily recognised and eternally bruited abroad among men, he would have placarded the fact on the walls of nature in letters of light – so luminous, that time should never pale them; so indelibly, that the war of elements should never efface them; so plainly and conclusively, that no priest should ever be able to misconstrue them; and no wayfarer, in this hurrying world, ever be in doubt about them.”

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George Holyoake Quote: “Dogmatism, the sin of superstition, is excluded from the empire of speculation.”

18. “Dogmatism, the sin of superstition, is excluded from the empire of speculation.”

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