Imaginary Discussion Thread on: Theology

The most tedious of all discussions are on the subject of the Supreme Being.
- Emerson

All beliefs are demonstrably true. All men are demonstrably in the right. Anything can be demonstrated by logic.
- Saint Exupery

Where ignorance is bliss,
‘Tis folly to be wise.
- Thomas Gray

No reason makes it right
To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite;
And we may better join the foolish crowd
Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
- Moliere

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
- Montaigne

He that knows least commonly presumes most.
- Thomas Fuller

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
- Publilius Syrus

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise.
- Matthew Prior

Wisdom is prevented by ignorance, and delusion is the result.
- The Bhagavadgita

The most important part of our lives – our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations – takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
- Joseph Wood Krutch

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
- Joseph Roux

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
- Andre Gide

Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
- Marcel Proust

It is the heart that experiences God, and not the reason.
The last thing one settles in writing a book is what one should put in first.
- Pascal

‘Tis very puzzling on the brink
Of what is called Eternity to stare,
And know no more of what is here, than there.
- Byron

However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
- Ivan Turgenev

God is the indwelling, and not the transient cause of all things.
- Spinoza