#gnostic

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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


#any #bottom #evidence #fairies #garden

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.


Anna Julia Cooper


#convinces #exhortations #impart #nothing #sermons

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.


Bob Dylan


#always #been #come #ever #i

His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual. Besides, those who worked hardest for others, like Mrs. Philips and Mrs. Gilmour and Dr. Ransome, often held beliefs that turned out to be correct.


J.G. Ballard


#chinese-department-stores #christianity #the-graf-zeppelin-club #respect

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.


Ben Nicholson


#believe #close #close proximity #deeply #i

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.


Brad Pitt


#atheism #between #i

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


Hu Shih


#atheists #china #even #leaders #openly

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.


Hu Shih


#already #ancient #another #china #early

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.


Winston Churchill


#kingdom #prognostication #inspirational

We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.


Andy Rooney


#atheism #belief #beliefs #god #gods