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Agnosticism Quotes by David Hume
- I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
- ... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and…
- 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…
- ... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open…
- 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…
- ..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…
- 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…
More Agnosticism Quotes
- To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. — Thomas Aquinas
- Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a… — H. L. Mencken
- I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god. — David Hume
- Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as… — Thomas Huxley
- The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all. — H. L. Mencken
- Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you… — Anna Julia Cooper
- Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is… — Andre Gide
- Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda
- Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy. — Jonathan Swift
- An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God. — Carl Sagan