Agnostic Quotes - Page 12

• I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

  John Chancellor

  Light, Long, Atheism

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• I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Religious, Memories, Flower

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• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control of education by religious authority. The attempts to ban the teaching of evolution or other scientific theories -- a feeble echo of medieval church tyranny and hostility to learning, but an echo nonetheless are serious threats to freedom of inquiry and should be vigorously combated.

  S. T. Joshi

  Religious, Atheist, Teaching

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• The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

  Whitley Strieber

  Christmas, Mother, Brother

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• What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion." That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh.

  Ann Coulter

  Self, Years, Wings

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• Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cynical, Incredibles, Appeals

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• A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Self, Rome

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• I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

  Steve Wozniak

  Atheist, Thinking, Differences

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• Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Latin, Greek, Ignorant

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• Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

  Thomas Paine

  God, Peace, Truth

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.196, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Roots, People

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• I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am still awake at night, asking how? I am more content with the question than I would be with an answer.

  Roger Ebert

  Atheist, Night, Would Be

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• Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.

  Christy Turlington

  Religious, Yoga, Practice

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• You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Lazy, Sloth, Fats

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• I would not say that ethical behavior is not possible for the atheist or agnostic. It is. A couple of pretty good examples are Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, I will have to say that if we take the human lot as a whole, these two men must be seen as exceptions.

  Huston Smith

  Atheist, Couple, Men

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• An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Mind, Would Be, States

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.11757, Delphi Classics

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• God is the absolute truth...

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

  "Lectures on Philosophy of Religion, Volume 1". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1827.

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• In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

  Richard Posner

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• What you are about to hear is God's word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power - that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win.

  Bill McCartney

  War, School, Winning

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• Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs, although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist, and agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist - which I am.

  Roger Ebert

  Atheist, Intelligent, Design

  "Life Itself : A Memoir". Book by Roger Ebert, 2011.

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• The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

  Terry Eagleton

  Church, Matter, Suspects

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• In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.

  Peter Guber

  Winning, People, Secret

  "Storytelling to help your career" by Rachel Farrell, www.cnn.com. June 29, 2011.

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• [as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of the book as it is opened and closed in normal use. When the sections needing correction are too thick, paste the pages together being careful not to smear portions of the book not intended for correction.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Cutting, Together

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• Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Jesus, Power

  George Bernard Shaw (1978). “Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Talking, Atmosphere

  "Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment" by Charles Krauthammer, jewishworldreview.com. May 30, 2008.

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