Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#no

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #no




The Search for reason ends at the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only the sense of the ineffable can glide. It alone knows the route to that which is remote from experience and understanding. Neither of them is amphibious: reason cannot go beyond the shore, and the sense of the ineffable is out of place where we measure, where we weigh. We do not leave the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions. We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore. Citizens of two realms, we all must sustain a dual allegiance: we sense the ineffable in one realm, we name and exploit reality in another. Between the two we set up a system of references, but we can never fill the gap. They are as far and as close to each other as time and calendar, as violin and melody, as life and what lies beyond the last breath.


Abraham Joshua Heschel


#knowledge #life #reason #experience

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed


Bō Jinn


#atheism #christianity-islam #god #religion #religion

The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you’d be ruined. Overdosed on information.


Chuck Palahniuk


#religion #religion

Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we’d be intolerable creatures.


Tiffany Madison


#existentialism #god #humanity #knowledge #religion

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.


Michael Palin


#atheism #belief #religion #religion

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.


Andy Rooney


#astrology #atheism #belief #beliefs #magic

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.


Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas


#knowledge #wisdom #religion

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.


Neil deGrasse Tyson


#god #knowledge #religion #science #the-universe

The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the truth of the surrounding world. God knows this, and it infuriates him. It terrifies him.


Autumn Christian


#atheism #god #humanity #religion #the-crooked-god-machine

Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers.


Mario Stinger


#atheism #fear #religion #unknown #religion






back to top