Top 3 Gnosticism Quotes

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Thinking, Certain, Agnosticism

The True Believer Part 3, Chapter XII, Section 57 (p. 79)

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

Jean Giraudoux

Believe, Brooding, Agnosticism

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

Francis Thompson

Everlasting, Agnosticism

"A Renegade Poet and Other Essays" by Francis Thompson, Boston: The Ball Publishing Co., (p. 47), 1910.

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

Martin Buber

Gnosticism, Enemy, Atheism

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Henry Ward Beecher

Skins, Doctrine, Agnosticism

Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.307

In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

Nancy Pearcey

Attitude, Gnosticism, Suffering

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

Brad Pitt

Atheism, Agnosticism

"The Many Revolutions of Brad Pitt" by Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 25, 2012.

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

Carl Jung

Gnosticism, Special, Study

Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”