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atheist felt love rebel though worst
Rebel and Atheist too, why murmur I, / As though I felt the worst that love could do? John Donne
atheist rejection challenges
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery. Bede Griffiths
atheist claims inference
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid. C. S. Lewis
atheist real believe
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
atheist people opiates
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
atheist reading men
In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.
atheist reading men
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
atheist men different
I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us. Carl Reiner
atheist pseudoscience difficult
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. Carl Sagan
ignorance knowing sake
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake. B. F. Skinner
ignorance patriotic simple
I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music. Bernie Taupin
ignorance creativity years
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson
ignorance hands support
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales. Bertrand Russell
ignorance mystery delightful
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
ignorance ignorant depth
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
ignorance religion tyranny
...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins... Benjamin Franklin
ignorance moon night star
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star Confucius
ignorance moon night
Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.
atheism unhappy balance
What makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem.
atheism speak precaution
It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.
atheism lasts rate
Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. Charles Darwin
atheism murder confessing
It is like confessing to a murder.
atheism intellect affirmative
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.
atheism devil vices
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. Charles Spurgeon
atheism reason accepting
... reason accepts no commandments. Ayn Rand
atheism environment seeking
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.
atheism may ifs
God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous