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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others.
- Bertrand Russel, “Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?“
I had to make this a double, this one was just too good to pass up.
If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.
- Tom Peters
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
“Tell me,” the great twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once asked a friend, “why do people always say it was natural for man to assume that the sun went around the Earth rather than that the Earth was rotating?” His friend replied, “Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going around the Earth.” Wittgenstein responded, “Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, as quoted by Richard Dawkins in ‘The God Delusion’
“Gods don’t kill people. People with Gods kill people.”
David Viaene