An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
CLARENCE DARROWTo say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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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.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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