I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“ Robert Ingersoll came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“{ Stockton, a playwright who performed plays about Robert Ingersoll , gives the four moments in Ingersoll 's life that shaped him,… — Richard F. Stockton Copy Share Image
“If you describe yourself as "Atheist," some people will say, "Don't you mean 'Agnostic'?" I have to reply that I really do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“No, not at all. I’m an atheist. You could say that I’m agnostic, but that’s just a certain kind of atheist (laughs).… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“God is powerful. Even those who claim not to believe in him fear him. Though their mouths may confess to disbelieve in… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.” — Jerry DeWitt Copy Share Image
I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer.… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.” — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
“I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism… — Alejandro Amenábar Copy Share Image
Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism… — Jerry DeWitt Copy Share Image