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Quotes About Philosophy

The devil is more interesting than God.
~ Christopher Plummer
God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.
~ William of Ockham
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I've been so relieved and so grateful to not have a god to believe in.
~ Cloris Leachman
Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?
~ John Fante, Ask the Dust
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
~ Saint Augustine
I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.
~ Philippe Starck
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
~ Mortimer Adler
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.
~ Dorothee Solle
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
~ Eddie Izzard
When nothing was, then God was there, Had nothing been God would have been; My being has defeated me, Had I not been, what would have been.
~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?
~ Layne Staley
God is either everything, or He is nothing.
~ Bill W.
You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.
~ Greg Egan
And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
~ Anselm of Canterbury
It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.
~ Richard Swinburne
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
~ Jules Renard
God built the universe on numbers.
~ Pythagoras
Is there a God? Is there an afterlife?... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there.
~ Ryan Buell
We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.
~ Johannes Scotus Eriugena
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
~ Epicurus