Quotes from people born on this date
Arthur Hailey (1920)
“"But quite suddenly, as I was reciting the Creed in a church in Cyprus, where we were stationed, I found myself saying 'I don't believe this any more.' I lost my faith and became an agnostic."
—Hailey, quoted in The Independent (Nov. 27, 2004)
Thomas Hobbes (1588)
“Seeing there are no signs nor fruit of religion but in man only, there is no cause to doubt but that the seed of religion is also only in man.”
“Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, RELIGION; not allowed, SUPERSTITION.”
—Sir Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan" (1651)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837)
"Jowett, the great translator of Plato and a famous Broad Church liberal in religion, reputedly prevented Swinburne's expulsion for atheism from Oxford with the statement that he did not want 'Oxford to sin twice against poetry' (the expulsion of Shelley being the first)."
—George P. Landow, Brown University professor of English and art history, The Victorian Web
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“"But quite suddenly, as I was reciting the Creed in a church in Cyprus, where we were stationed, I found myself saying 'I don't believe this any more.' I lost my faith and became an agnostic."
—Hailey, quoted in The Independent (Nov. 27, 2004)
Thomas Hobbes (1588)
“Seeing there are no signs nor fruit of religion but in man only, there is no cause to doubt but that the seed of religion is also only in man.”
“Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, RELIGION; not allowed, SUPERSTITION.”
—Sir Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan" (1651)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837)
"Jowett, the great translator of Plato and a famous Broad Church liberal in religion, reputedly prevented Swinburne's expulsion for atheism from Oxford with the statement that he did not want 'Oxford to sin twice against poetry' (the expulsion of Shelley being the first)."
—George P. Landow, Brown University professor of English and art history, The Victorian Web
© Freedom From Religion Foundation. All rights reserved
