"If a person is intelligent, then of course……" — John Fowles
"If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence."
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140 Quotes by John Fowles
John Fowles has 140 quotes on this site.
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It…
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and…
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
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On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach…
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Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile:…
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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing…
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;…
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery…
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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More Agnostic Quotes
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
— Michelle Bachelet
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I have to recognize that I am agnostic.
— Antonio Banderas
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith…
— William Jennings Bryan
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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…
— Isaac Asimov
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The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests…
— Douglas Adams
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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…
— Alan Dershowitz
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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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The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
— Ernest Renan
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