Quotes About Philosophy

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

The world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

God is a scientist, not a magician.

All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God.