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Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

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• I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Sound
  • Studying

• I'm not one to think of burying my head in the sand - I've always been a positive person and still am now.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Think
  • Positive
  • Sand

• Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • World
  • Real
  • Power

• I meditate not to escape the world but instead to be completely present.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • World

• If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • Learn
  • Understand

• Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • Growing
  • Hands
  • Expands

• In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.

  

  George Will
  • May
  • Iraq
  • Iran

• I myself am a huge Radiohead fan.

  

  Ramin Djawadi
  • Myself
  • Radiohead

• I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Economic
  • United States
  • Tolerate

• I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Wisdom

• The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Evil

• There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own versions. A lot of the writing is my own, too. But if someone were to take each drawing and trace it back to its source, most of them could be traced back to a book or a text.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Drawing

• We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Understanding
  • Humans
  • Said

• It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Atheist
  • Unfair
  • Humanist

• My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Mother
  • Agnostic
  • Synagogue

• I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Christian
  • Humanitarian

• The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Agnostic

• Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Life
  • She
  • Eden

• Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Agnostic
  • Humanist