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Quotes About Philosophy

God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
~ Henry de Montherlant
As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
~ Johann Most
Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.
~ Meister Eckhart
The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
~ Rumi
Atheists say no one can prove the existence of God but I say no one can disprove that God exists I see God in everything I feel his presence everywhere to me I know that he exists.
~ Shane Harper
I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.
~ Albert Einstein
I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.
~ C. S. Lewis
Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.
~ Marcus Aurelius
...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever they have been or will be invented.
~ Richard Dawkins
God means movement, and not explanation.
~ Elie Wiesel
Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism
~ Ibn Warraq
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
~ Albert Einstein
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
~ Voltaire
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
~ Georges Duhamel
If God does not exist, everything is permitted.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended
~ Peter van Inwagen
The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.
~ Alan Moore