Abominable Quotes

“By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

...Our creed is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't.”
― Erwin Schrödinger, A Life of Erwin Schrödinger

“Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't.”
― Erwin Schrödinger, A Life of Erwin Schrödinger

“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen brow of death: ah, that is something like it. A delicious straying away from the world, and never the return. As only the unreal is not ignoble and empty, existence must be admitted to be abominable. Yes, imagination is the only good thing which heaven vouchsafes to the skeptic and pessimist, alarmed by the eternal abjectness of life.”
― Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

“ABOMINABLE, adj. The quality of another's opinions.”
― Ambrose Bierce, Collected Works: The Devil's Dictionary, Fantastic Fables and More!

“There are indeed abominable ideas and beliefs which are of no discernible good, but we should not assume our ideas are so flawless that ever applies to entire groups of people.”
― C.A.A. Savastano