Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Todd Carroll

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Robert Todd Carroll was an American writer and academic, best known for The Skeptic's Dictionary. He described himself as a naturalist, an atheist, a materialist, a metaphysical libertarian, and a positivist. In 2010 he was elected a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He was a professor of philosophy at Sacramento City College from 1977 until his retirement in 2007.

American - Writer | 1945 - 2000

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Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

Robert Todd Carroll

Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody in somewhere, somehow.

Robert Todd Carroll

Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.

Robert Todd Carroll

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

Robert Todd Carroll

History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy?

Robert Todd Carroll

The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception

Robert Todd Carroll

Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.

Robert Todd Carroll

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

Robert Todd Carroll

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Todd Carroll

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