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Quotes About Philosophy

The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
~ Joseph Goebbels
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
~ Thomas Aquinas
God is not He who is, but That which is.
~ Baruch Spinoza
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.
~ Immanuel Kant
O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?
~ Zhou Yu
I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
~ John Huston
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Men always makes gods in their own image.
~ Xenophanes
Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.
~ Julian Huxley
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
~ Bryan Appleyard
We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.
~ Sean M. Carroll
If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?
~ Ricky Gervais
The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.
~ Denis Diderot
God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world
~ Gustave Flaubert
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
~ George Santayana
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
~ Wilhelm Reich
I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)
~ Albert Einstein
If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe.
~ Swami Vivekananda
If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?
~ David Feherty
If God is male, then the male is God.
~ Mary Daly
Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.
~ Alexandra David-Neel
Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
~ Thomas Nagel