#gnostic

I have to recognize that I am agnostic. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#am #i #i am #recognize

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. ↗

— Orson Welles

#atheism #choose #great #great love #hate

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

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

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

The idea that we are to be absorbed into the Deity is Gnostic in its origins and is quite antithetical to Christianity." ~R. Alan Woods [2006] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#christianity #gnosticism #nihilism #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

Scientism is gnosticism wrapped in a post-modern package". ~R. Alan Woods [2009] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #scientism #r-alan-woods

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#dogs #dyslexia #god #humor #insomnia