Agnosticism Quotes
121 Agnosticism quotes by 76 unique authors
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All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush…
— H. L. Mencken
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied…
— A A Milne
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The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite…
— Leo Tolstoy
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And the cause of everything is that which we call God.
— Leo Tolstoy
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When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the…
— Charles Darwin
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How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is…
— Charles Darwin
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I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of…
— Charles Darwin
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But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all…
— Charles Darwin
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... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and…
— David Hume
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To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected…
— David Hume
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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of…
— Charles Darwin
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is…
— Charles Darwin
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For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this…
— Aldous Huxley
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We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us.…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain…
— Sigmund Freud
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I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the…
— Sigmund Freud
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As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
— Charles Darwin
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable…
— Charles Darwin
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There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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