Quotes About Philosophy

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

The impotence of God is infinite.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.

In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube.

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

Is there a God? No. God is a verb, not a noun.

The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

God is not described in equations.

Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.