"If we were to judge nature by common……" — Annie Dillard

"If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed."

— Annie Dillard

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260 Quotes by Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard has 260 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a…
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each…
You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word…
The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at…
I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host…
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where…
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you…
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood…
At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the…

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More Atheist Quotes

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode… — Aristotle
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the… — Douglas Adams
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — John Adams
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism… — Joseph Addison
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can… — Jack Black
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a… — Tony Blair

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