Agnostic Quotes - Page 3

• You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Spiritual, Atheist

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• If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Atheist, Atheism, Nihilism

  Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (2009). “God and the State”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Sex, Believe

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

  Hu Shih

  Atheist, Leader, Atheism

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• All religions have been made by men.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Atheist, Men, Religion

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• There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheist, Fear, Dark

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• If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

  Bill Maher

  Atheist, Ignorance, Men

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• I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Together, Sin, Socialist

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• I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheist, Long, Atheism

  Free Inquiry Journal, Spring 1982.

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• ...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Lying, Book

  Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.58

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• I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Fate, Ideas, Humanity

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• Man created God in his own image.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Atheist, Men, Anti God

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.

  Steve Buscemi

  Religious, Atheist, Eye

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• There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Respect, Atheist, Learning

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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  Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Daughter, Religious, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.196, University of Georgia Press

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• So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Fake

  "What on Earth is an Atheist!". Book by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 1972.

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• Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

  Stephen Colbert

  Atheist, Atheism, Balls

  "The Colbert Report". www.imdb.com. 2005 - 2015.

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• As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.

  Francis Collins

  Life, God, Atheist

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• I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

  Penelope Lively

  Kings, Grateful, Grew Up

  "I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

  Joseph McCabe

  Atheist, Play, Training

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• Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spiritual, Atheist, Ignorance

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• I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Christian, Atheist

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• My father was an agnostic.

  Jerry Falwell

  Father

  Jerry Falwell (1996). “Falwell: An Autobiography”, Tab Books

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• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Atheist, People

  "There is No God (And You Know It)" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2005.

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• It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, God, Religious

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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