Victor Hugo Quotes About Religion
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To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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I am for religion, against religions.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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No religion but blasphemes a little.
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I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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