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  • I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.

    Spiritual   Mean   Facts  
    "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.
  • Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

    James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins
  • I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

  • Think for yourself and question authority.

    Love   Life   Spiritual  
    Timothy Leary's track on Audio album "Sound Bites from the Counter Culture", 1989.
  • Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

    Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.143, Courier Dover Publications
  • I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

  • I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

  • You need to know where to go,' Sanya said. 'Yes,' 'And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance.' 'Yes,' I said. ...'There is, I think, humour here which does not translate well from English into sanity.' 'That's pretty rich coming from the agnostic Knight of the Cross with a holy Sword who takes his orders from an archangel.' I said. - Harry Dresden & Sanya, Changes, Jim Butcher

  • In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

    Atheist   Fear   Reality  
    "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 16, 1888.
  • As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

  • The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

    Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

    Funny   God   Witty  
  • I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

    "Simon Hoggart's week: Ever heard of an agnostic suicide bomber?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2012.
  • In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say: "At last, you know." And I would hope that He would add, "Welcome."

    Real   Heaven   President  
  • The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

  • I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.

  • It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

    Death   Witty   Atheist  
    Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books
  • I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

    "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.
  • I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

    "I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.
  • In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.

    Men   May   Matter  
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.272, University of Georgia Press
  • The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man after his own image, and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.

    Christian   Men   Order  
  • No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

    Atheist   Hatred   Scary  
    Campaign press conference at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, August 27, 1987.
  • A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

    Religious   Men   Hatred  
  • I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

    "Narrative Magazine’s Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She Talks About “A Handmaid’s Tale”,“The Year Of The Flood” And Having Fun". Interview with Jo Scott-Coe, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.
  • The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

    Fashion   Catholic   Mind  
    "Reginald". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1904.
  • The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

  • It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

    Book   Men   Justice  
  • The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]
  • I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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