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“We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.”

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“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the reason I'm unable to accept the claims of psychic, occult, and/or supernatural wonders is because I'm locked into a world-view that demands evidence rather than blind faith, a view that insists upon the replication of all experiments — particularly those that appear to show violations of a rational world — and a view which requires open examination of the methods used to carry out those experiments.”

Reason Science Atheism Evidence Paranormal Materialism Superstition Naturalism Scientific Method Experiment

Author:James Randi

“Imitate Jesus and Socrates”

Love Reason Humility

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.”

Reason Impossible Ostoevsky

Book:In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

Source: In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

“The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the history of the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process.”

Reason Philosophy History

Book:The Philosophy of History

Source: The Philosophy of History

“No, not at all. I’m an atheist. You could say that I’m agnostic, but that’s just a certain kind of atheist (laughs). An atheist is someone who lacks a belief in a supernatural, and that’s me. I can’t say with absolute certainty that there is nothing beyond the material world, but there’s no reason for me to think there is. If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.”

Reason Atheism Evidence Atheist Agnostic Agnosticism

Author:Steve Albini

“So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: and whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.”

Reason Experience Contrary Irrational Superstition

Book:Of Miracles

Source: Of Miracles

“Things don't happen for a reason, we make reasons out of things that happen.”

Reason Fate Circumstances Luck

Author:Michael P. Naughton

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