Quotes About Philosophy

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about.

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.

God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

I don't believe in God.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.