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... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open… — David Hume
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles… — David Hume
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they… — David Hume
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner… — David Hume
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. — Harun Yahya
One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in… — Huston Smith
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic. — Eric Chaisson
Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains? — Unknown Author
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. — Kenneth E. Boulding
Anyone who feels that they're in some way plugged into a meaningful, cosmic system is given a greater psychological balance as a result-whether or not… — Robin Skynner
When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith… — William Bateson
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back… — Stephen Batchelor
The world is continuous flux and is impermanent. — Gautama Buddha
I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that… — Karl Popper
I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover… — James Cameron
Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very… — Robert Anton Wilson
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. — Robert Anton Wilson
Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A… — David Eagleman
Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism is my opinion. — Unknown Author
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down… — Francis Collins
For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not… — Swami Vivekananda
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. — H. L. Mencken
In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven.… — Francois Mitterrand

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