Marya Hornbacher Quotes

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Believing that there is no God does not mean that there isn't one.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.