Quotes About Philosophy

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that's where belief lies and art as well.

The atheists I know, virtually all of whom are happy and mentally healthy, might more properly be called anti-nihilists. We are mainly optimists who love our lives and find them to be full of meaning and purpose.

According to believers like Craig who are unhappy with blunt reality, life needs to be more than it is, otherwise it is absurd, and since we can't possibly allow life to be absurd, then life must be more than it is! As an atheist, I think that is absurd.

If salvation is the cure, then atheism is the prevention.

May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.

My friends, I am not saying I know for a fact that there is no God. All I am saying is that if there is a divine force behind the universe, it is laughing hysterically at the religions we've created in an attempt to define it.

For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order—creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

What's the matter?'' She immediately started laughin. ''What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!

RELIGION: BECAUSE THINKING IS HARD.

My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.

Which would you choose? A world without religion? Or a world without science?

Religion is flawed but only because man is flawed.

Throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing —- that a great enlightenment is coming.

Science tells me that God must exist. My mind tells me I will never undertand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to

One of Langdon's Harvard colleagues—a solemn physics professor—had become so fed up with philosophy majors attending his Origins of the Universe seminar that he finally posted a sign on his classroom door. In my classroom, T > 0. For all inquiries where T = 0, please visit the Religion Department. "How about Panspermia?" Winston

I call it 'Prayer for the Future.' " Edmond closed his eyes and spoke slowly, with startling assurance. "May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.

Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply what the universe creates and reproduces in order to dissipate energy.

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

These two mysteries lie at the heart of the human experience. Where do we come from? Where are we going?

That is to say, when the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.

William Blake himself had written a similarly themed work titled All Religions Are One.

Well, this machine is no more me than your physical brain is you. Observing your own brain in a bowl, you would not say, 'That object is me.' We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.

don't believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect—" "—intended us to forgo their use?