Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

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.

How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas.

I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

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