AGNOSTICISM

See also: Belief; God, belief in; Unbelief

Agnosticism: the denial that it is possible to know the existence of god(s).

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Those who deny Thee could not deny, if Thou didst not exist; and their denial is never complete, for if it were so, they would not exist.

T.S. Eliot

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about man’s search for God. For me, they might as well talk about the mouse’s search for a cat.

C.S. Lewis

The agnostic’s prayer: “O God, if there is a god, save my soul, if I have a soul.”

Ernest Renan

Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality

Cornelius Van Til