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Agnostic Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
- A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.
- The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to.…
- The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries…
- There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he…
- Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.
- Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.
- I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.
- Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
- Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.
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- I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature… — Andrea Bocelli
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- I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov
- The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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- I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic… — Alan Dershowitz
- The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all. — H. L. Mencken
- The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." — Ernest Renan