Agnostic Quotes - Page 14

• Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Atheist, Real, Fighting

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Atheist, Thinking, Hair

  H. P. Lovecraft (1999). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”, p.11, Penguin

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• 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

  Jim Butcher

  Thinking, Knights, Order

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• I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

  Jim Butcher

  Switzerland, Burden, Decent

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• Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Mean, World, May

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• Even if there is intelligent life somewhere, which perhaps there is, I'm agnostic about it, I don't know.

  Luka Jones

  Intelligent, Ifs, Knows

  "Da’Vine Joy Randolph & Luka Jones Talk TBS’ ‘People Of Earth’ + Watch The First Episode!". www.hollywood.com.

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• If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Responsibility, Essentials, Different

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

  Protagoras

  Mean, Knowing, Religion

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• When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

  Henry M. Morris

  Bible, Data, Taliban

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• The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.

  Henry M. Morris

  Religious, Historical, Religion

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• When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Knees, Praying

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• Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Atheist, Men

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I'm a teleological, existential agnostic.

  Woody Allen

  Existential

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• Most people past college age are not atheists. It's too hard to be in society, for one thing. Because you don't get any days off. And if you're an agnostic you don't know whether you get them off or not.

  Mort Sahl

  Atheist, Past, College

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• I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Adults, Asking, Answers

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Atheist, Office

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He wasn't even an agnostic. That's exactly what the situation is, in other words, when you enter an eternal realm. You've got to know there is no religion.

  Paul Laffoley

  Atheist, Years, Lovecraft

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Pain, Believe, Comfort

  Source: hollywoodchicago.com

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• If you are a Christian, you can still practice Stoicism and think of the Logos as the Word of God. If you are a secular person, an agnostic or an atheist, you may treat the Logos as "Einstein's god," that is the factual recognition that the cosmos is ordered according to rational principles, without which science itself wouldn't be possible.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Christian, Atheist, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I love New York. It's made me realize that God's a lot bigger than I thought he was. It's a really interesting crowd. We have an agnostic person who comes on a regular basis, a transgender person who said that they found our church because they we're looking for a church that wouldn't hate them. The congregation is really great.

  Jay Bakker

  Hate, Interesting, Church

  "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.

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• There's a big part of me that's atheist. There's a big part of me that's agnostic. And there's a big part of me that tends towards the mystic. The thing that I find is most important in all of that is to retain my sense of wonder and the idea that I don't actually know what's going to happen.

  Vanessa Veselka

  Atheist, Important, Wonder

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Today, if the CEO thinks it's a good idea, it's done everywhere; if the CEO thinks it's a bad idea, it's done nowhere. We ought to be more agnostic and open to learning things that we didn't expect - and the only way to do that is to try things and be open-minded about how well they are working. And third, evidence-based management involves reading and learning - just like doctors do - and to do so not just in school but afterward, as well.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Reading, School, Thinking

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  A Book of Burlesques ch. 11 (1920)

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• I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Prayer, Believe, Everyday

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• I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

  Dan Savage

  Atheism, Cop, Principled

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