Agnostic Quotes - Page 15

• Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

  Tryon Edwards

  Ignorance, Greek, Inquiry

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1423, Ravenio Books

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• It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Men, Deceived

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• The worst criminals are not half so immoral as the creators and perpetrators of the unquestionable hell of Christian theology

  M. M. Mangasarian

  Christian, Half, Criminals

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• 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.

  M. M. Mangasarian

  Book, Men, Justice

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• If Jesus was a Jew, why did he have a Spanish name?

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Names, Jew

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• Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Miracle, Arise

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

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• When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

  George Carlin

  Funny, God, Atheist

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Atheist, Children

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Believe, Premium, Difficult

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• As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Taken, Despair, Principles

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.143, Courier Dover Publications

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• The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on the fear of others. He is not satisfied with saying that you do not know, -- he demonstrates that you do not know, and he drives you from the field of fact -- he drives you from the realm of reason -- he drives you from the light, into the darkness of conjecture -- into the world of dreams and shadows, and he compels you to say, at last, that your faith has no foundation in fact.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Dream, Ignorance, Light

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• Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.

  Douglas Adams

  Being Yourself, Atheist, Believe

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• I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

  John E. Jones III

  Atheist, Divine, Force

  Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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• People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Thinking, Hair

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.103, Del Rey

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• The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

  Karl Marx

  Flower, Men, Chains

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• I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

  H. L. Mencken

  Detest

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• The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

  George Meredith

  Country, Fighting, Men

  George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1912). “1844-1881”

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• There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if He did not, then it is sheer nonsense. I defy any genuine scientists to say that he believes in the Resurrection, or indeed in any other cardinal dogma of the Christian system.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.120, Knopf

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• Let me use their own terminology against them. They aborted a child in the 200th trimester.

  Dennis Miller

  Children, Use, Let Me

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• If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake it, and you can eat it an hour later. We don't promise you a pie in the sky by and by. It's charlatanry to promise people something that no one can be sure will ever be delivered. But it's even worse to offer people a reward, like children, for being good, and to threaten them with punishment if they're not.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Children, Pie

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• So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Lying, Sin, Good Things

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• The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Cat, Gay

  "Clinical Notes". The American Mercury (January 1924), p. 75; later quoted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Fourth Series", 1924.

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• Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

  Andre Alexis

  Catholic, Way, Myth

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.

  H. L. Mencken

  Heart, Thinking, Acting

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• Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

  Philipp Melanchthon

  Law, Authority, Platonic

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