Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

I've noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.

I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial and intelligent substances I do not at all doubt;...

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced...

And even if fairies built a nest in the bottom of my garden and it should turn out that I have to live for a thousand years, there's not one of them when I'll be of a mind to trust you.

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence - - and punishes those who do.

If you don't know the source of a quote, you can always make it sound better by attributing it to me. - Mark Twain

For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails, devised by rogues, dreaded by fools, with his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door, are senseless stories, idle tales, dreams,...

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy - fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop - out,...

I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they're working in His best interests.

That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have...

That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super - powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have...

If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression — maybe that's what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch.

A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.