agnosticism

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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.

Being an agnostic means 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 me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant. Jorge Luis Borges

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.

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. This is what Agnosticism asserts... and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to Agnosticism. Thomas Huxley (1889)

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.

'It is sometimes used as a halfway house by those who cannot make a profession of faith but are unwilling to repudiate either religion or god absolutely.... An agnostic does not believe in god, or disbelieve in him. Nonbelief is not quite unbelief. . . . '

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.

The wavering faith of those who ask, "If God is all-powerful, why doesn't He have a stronger handshake?" 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.

is the philosophical, ethical, and religious dry rot of the modern world.

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.

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.'

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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