Atheism Quote by Stephen Batchelor

“Unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” —PHILIP K. DICK”

— Kurt Andersen

“Our belief in a world external to ourselves, filled with things and people that are not us, is an overwhelming fact of our existence.…

— James M. Corrigan

“To refute the solipsist or the metaphysical idealist all that you have to do is take him out and throw a rock at his…

— Edward Abbey

[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no…

— E. O. Wilson

“The choices aren't between a false but soothing mysticism and an acceptance of an indifferent universe. Rather, the choice is between an easy mysticism…

— Eric Maisel

Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…

— David Hume

I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all…

— Sam Keen

“we can only re-establish metaphysics today by returning to realism pure and simple.”

— Étienne Gilson

“The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever its comforts…

— Clifford Geertz

“You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong—to his own satisfaction.…

— Jack London

“Metaphysics is… at the root of all other sciences, which indeed presuppose it. It has been abandoned by the modern mind, which seems to…

— Dom Eugene Boylan