Quotes About Agnosticism

I don't know if there's a God. (And neither do you, and neither does Professor Dawkins, and neither does anybody. It isn't the kind of thing you can know. It isn't a knowable item.) But then, like every human being, I am not in the habit of entertaining only the emotions I can prove. I'd be a unrecognizable oddity if I did.

An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

He was a creature who knew three hundred religions, yet had faith in none of them. So

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

Agnostics are just atheists without balls.

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

He shuddered. He remembered that day in church when he prayed from the soul and listened and knew in that moment that there was no one there

não chegava à convicção de que existe um Deus enquanto ser dirigindo os nossos destinos. Fosse como fosse, como podia eu saber disso? E eles, que podiam eles saber? Teriam a certeza de ter a certeza? Estava sentado numa igreja com a estranha e feliz sensação de que a minha não crença e a crença deles eram curiosamente próximas.

My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm agnostic.

I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.

When I say I'm an agnostic, I only mean that the evidence isn't in. There isn't compelling evidence that God exists—at least your kind of god—and there isn't compelling evidence that he doesn't.

This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it's all true you'll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn't then you've lost nothing, right? When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, We're going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts...

either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business...

To tell you the truth, I'm something of an atheist.

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.

The agnostic has a very curious notion of religion. He is convinced that a man who says 'I believe in God' should at once become perfect; if this does not happen, then the believer must be a fraud and a hypocrite. He thinks that adherence to a religion is the end of the road, whereas it is in fact only the beginning of a very long and sometimes very rough road. He looks for consistency in religious people, however aware he may be of inconsistencies in himself

Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

tending to atheisme.

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

My faith in the gods is this: they are indifferent to my suffering.

Don Gustavo, que se declaraba agnóstico (lo cual la Bernarda sospechaba era una afección respiratoria, como el asma, pero de señoritos), opinaba que era matemáticamente imposible que la criada pecase lo suficiente como para mantener semejante ritmo de confesión.

Theists and atheists are equally religious.