Quotes About Philosophy

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.