"For a time it seemed inevitable that the……" — Swami Vivekananda
"For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one."
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Swami Vivekananda
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1,363 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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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…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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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.
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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and…
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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…
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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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— 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.
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