Best 165 quotes in «agnostic quotes» category

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

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

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

It may be the case that [post-Holocaust] the authentic Jewish agnostic and the authentic Jewish believer are closer than at any previous time.

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

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

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

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.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

Man created God in his own image.

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

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

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something.

On the science of global climate change, I'm an agnostic. I've seen Al Gore's movie, and I've read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I've also listened to the 'skeptics.' I don't know who's right.

On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

The law is agnostic about truth.

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.

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.

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

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

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.

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian.

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

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

The so-called geologic ages are essentially synonymous with the evolutionary theory of origins. The latter is the anti-God conspiracy of Satan himself.

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.

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

Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do not hold with that concept of a God or deity. In that concept, I'm agnostic. Okay, I don't know the answer, let's find the answer.

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion.

A belief is not true because it is useful

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

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

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity