"We are enabled to apprehend at all what……" — Henry David Thoreau
"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. We can never have enough of nature."
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
— H. L. Mencken
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
— David Hume
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so…
— Thomas Huxley
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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
— H. L. Mencken
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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity,…
— Andre Gide
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
— Jonathan Swift
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An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.
— Carl Sagan
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