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Quotes About Philosophy

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.
~ Alan Dershowitz
I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.
~ Albert Einstein
Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.
~ Albert Einstein
God: a gaseous vertebrate.
~ Aldous Huxley
Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.
~ Alfred Jarry
The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.
~ Annie Lennox
There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.
~ Arthur Hugh Clough
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
God is a thing that thinks.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.
~ Carl Sagan
No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.
~ Charles Proteus Steinmetz
The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?
~ Sylvia Plath
It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god
~ Thom Yorke
The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.
~ Thomas Aquinas
How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?
~ Vanna Bonta
Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.
~ William Shatner
Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.
~ William Wordsworth
It never really occurred to me to believe in God.
~ David Attenborough
Who is this god person anyway?
~ Douglas Adams
I would thank God, but I don't believe in it.
~ Eddie Vedder
God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.
~ Elbert Hubbard