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The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on - I am not too sure. ↗


— H.L. Mencken


#skepticism #tolerance #men

I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things tend to evaporate when what people tell you is what you want to hear. ↗


— Robert Penn Warren


#gullibility #skepticism #men

Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it affects where large portions of our tax money go, and in some cases even whether people’s lives are lost as a result of nonsense. ↗


— Massimo Pigliucci


#skepticism #money

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS? ↗


— Tim Minchin


#music #religion #skepticism #song-lyrics #spirituality

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content. ↗


— Alan Sokal


#critical-thinking #science #skepticism #science

As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature. ↗


— David Hume


#skepticism #nature

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature. ↗


— Criss Jami


#atheism #bible #bitterness #denial #epithet

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. ↗


— Christopher Hitchens


#skepticism #religion

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance. ↗


— Neil deGrasse Tyson


#philosophy #religion #science #skepticism #religion

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither. ↗


— Robert G. Ingersoll


#science #skepticism #religion






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