“ Robert Ingersoll came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question… — Sherwood Anderson 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
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
“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
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
“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
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he cannot justly… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“I think if I were to sit down in a bid for power, I would ask myself what I should control if… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“If you believe that God is good and that He loves you without regard to whom you are or what you do,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Not only do I not know what I believe, but also I cannot know for sure that I believe. How can I… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris 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
“A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
“Atheists are spiritual slackers, right? We are the stoners of the cosmos. We think we’re all over-intelligent, free-thinking, free-spirited, uber-cool, hippy-dippy, science-minded,… — T.K. Decker Copy Share Image
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is… — Edward John Carnell Copy Share Image
As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidence, let alone proof.… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
“We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance… — David Hume Copy Share Image
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“If I am not master of my life, not sultan of my own being, then no man's logic and no man's ecstatic… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we start at a… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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