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“If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.”

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A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it…

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The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

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“Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in”

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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

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“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.…

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Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice

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To be agnostic is to be open-minded.

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The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just…

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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

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“The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.”

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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it…

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