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Quotes About Philosophy

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.
~ David Hume
To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith
~ Dennis Prager
Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
~ Gabriel Vahanian
If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can't lift it?
~ George Carlin
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
~ George MacDonald
It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist
~ Gianni Vattimo
I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
~ Immanuel Kant
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
~ Ivan Turgenev
I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I don't follow any one religion.
~ Katie Melua
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
I have found God, but he is insufficient.
~ Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.
~ Simone Weil
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.
~ Carl Sagan
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)
~ Richard Dawkins
I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.
~ Stephen Fry
I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
~ Al Purdy