Atheism Quote by Mark Twain Download Open image “Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.” — Mark Twain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Facility Fear Matter People Rage Reasoning Religion Religious Use
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that. — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“ ‘Reasoning doesn’t have this function of helping us to get better beliefs and make better decisions,’ said Hugo Mercier, who is a co-author… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
