Quotes with theologians

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  • Voltaire Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • John Updike Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Richard Dawkins I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Arthur Peacocke In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Marquis de Sade To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle Whatever theologians may choose to assert, it is certain that mankind at large has far more virtue than vice.
    History of civilization
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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