Quotes About Philosophy

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Faith doesn't begin until reason stops.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one.

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.