"Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• 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… — 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… — 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… — Anna Julia Cooper
• Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity,… — Andre Gide
• Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to… — Swami Vivekananda
• Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its… — Jonathan Swift
• 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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