Agnosticism Quotes - Page 5

• Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Christian, Atheist, Atheism

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• I do believe in God, but I think it's very healthy for a believer to spend time in the pragmatism of agnosticism, and I think God appreciates agnostics trying to make a science of it and going, "I will not believe any further than that." I enjoy that kind of engineering mind. In no way did it ever feel blasphemous to me as a man of faith.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Creer, Hombres, Pensar

  "Preguntas y respuestas: Matthew McConaughey y Woody Harrelson de True Detective, los Laurel y Hardy de la desesperación existencial". Entrevista con John Lopez, grantland.com. 8 de enero de 2014.

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• Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Attitude, Mind

  William Jennings Bryan, Lowell Harris Coate (1925). “The dawn of humanity”

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• The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.

  George H. Smith

  Negative, Utterance, Way

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• The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.

  Edward John Carnell

  Heart, Demand, Doubters

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• Durante un tiempo pareció inevitable que la oleada de agnosticismo y materialismo arrasara con todo. Hubo quienes no se atrevieron a expresar lo que pensaban. Muchos pensaron que el caso no tenía remedio y que la causa de la religión estaba perdida para siempre. Pero la marea ha cambiado y al rescate ha llegado... ¿qué? El estudio de las religiones comparadas. Mediante el estudio de las distintas religiones descubrimos que, en esencia, son una sola.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Esencia, Diferentes, Mareas

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• 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."

  François Mitterrand

  Real, Heaven, President

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• Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

  Francis Thompson

  Eterno

  "A Renegade Poet and Other Essays" by Francis Thompson, Boston: The Ball Publishing Co., (p. 47), 1910.

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• El agnosticismo, de hecho, no es un credo, sino un método, cuya esencia reside en la aplicación rigurosa de un único principio. ... El principio puede expresarse positivamente: En cuestiones del intelecto, sigue tu razón hasta donde te lleve, sin tener en cuenta ninguna otra consideración. Y negativamente: En asuntos del intelecto, no pretendas que son ciertas conclusiones que no están demostradas o son demostrables.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Essence, Principles

  Thomas Henry Huxley (19??). “Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley”

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• To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God, he is unknowable. But in that case, he is not entirely unknowable, for the agnostic certainly thinks that we can know one thing about him: That nothing else can be known about him.

  J. Budziszewski

  Thinking, If There Is A God, Agnostic

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• Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Reality, Self, Atheism

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• The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Years, Religion

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• It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Religion, Atheism

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• "Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official censors to encyst and segregate and thus neutralize all contrarian forms of seeing and thinking, all (necessarily implicitly) prohibited and repressed ways of exercising disruptive and iconoclastic intuition and intellection (for to analyze and explain these things too openly is to give them publicity and potential cogency when the point is to asphyxiate them).

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Exercise, Thinking

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• We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Creencia

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• I just became a stronger agnostic, and then I started to realize that everyone who was saying they were agnostic really hadn't thought about it that much. Still, I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist -- being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

  Julia Sweeney

  Atheist, Long, Stronger

  "FINDING MY RELIGION / Julia Sweeney talks about how she became an atheist" by David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2005.

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• There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

  E. M. Forster

  Lying, Suffering, Atheism

  E.M. Forster (1951). "Dos hurras por la democracia"

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• Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

  André Gide

  Littles, Triumph, Belief

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.34, Routledge

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• Desde los elevados vuelos espirituales de la filosofía Vedanta, de los que los últimos descubrimientos de la ciencia parecen ecos, hasta las bajas ideas de la idolatría con su mitología multifacética, el agnosticismo de los budistas y el ateísmo de los jainistas, todos y cada uno tienen cabida en la religión del hinduismo.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Espiritual, Budista, Filosofía

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Essentials of Hinduism”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Un ateo tiene que saber mucho más de lo que yo sé. Un ateo es alguien que sabe que no existe dios. Según algunas definiciones, el ateísmo es muy estúpido.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Agnostic, There Is No God

  "A Tribute to Carl Sagan: The Sagan File" by Joel Achenbach, The Skeptic Magazine, Vol 13, No. 1, www.skeptic.com. 2006.

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• Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Skins, Doctrine, Christian Doctrine

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.307

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• Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Intellectual, Atheism, Weakness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.76

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, May, Belief

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.11, Vintage

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• I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Believe, Brooding, Absent

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• La religión parece haberse convertido en un bebé con la edad, y requiere milagros para amamantarlo, como lo hizo en su infancia.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nurse, Miracle, Age

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.304

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