Nicolas Roeg Quotes

I don't need faith.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

Unbelief is a belief.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

My father was an agnostic.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

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 don't think you need religion.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.