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Agnosticism is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle: 'Try all things, hold fast by that which is good.'

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Agnosticism is the only rational attitude toward an unknowable Providence, and unfortunately the only one that denies its adherents the certainty enjoyed by believers and atheists alike.

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Agnosticism is recognizing that all things are possible, even God, even the holy trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes one live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes one more tolerant.

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Agnosticism is used as a halfway house by those who cannot make a profession of faith but are unwilling to repudiate either religion or God absolutely.

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Agnosticism is simply the idea that a man shall not say he knows or believes which he has no grounds in professing in the first place.

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Agnosticism is simply the assertion that it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

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I think I'm agnostic, but I haven't decided

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Agnosticism is, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. That principle is of great antiquity; it is as old as Socrates; as old as the writer who said, 'Try all things, hold fast by that which is good'; it is the foundation of the Reformation, which simply illustrated the axiom that every man should be able to give a reason for the faith that is in him, it is the great principle of Descartes; it is the fundamental axiom of modern science.

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