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Quotes About Philosophy

God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.
~ Socrates
There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
~ Stephen Fry
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.
~ Dalai Lama
You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!
~ Daniel Dennett
There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.
~ Jacques Maritain
There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.
~ Penn Jillette
In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.
~ Alanis Morissette
You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.
~ Albert Einstein
God Almighty does not throw dice.
~ Albert Einstein
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.
~ Alexander Markovich Polyakov
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
~ Amber Valletta
Without a doubt. I believe in fate the same way others believe in God. I do believe in fate.
~ Angeles Mastretta
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.
~ Bill Watterson
An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
~ Carl Sagan
The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.
~ Thomas Aquinas
There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
~ Thomas Aquinas
A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.
~ Thomas Aquinas
God is so great, he does not even need to exist.
~ Victor Frederick Weisskopf
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
~ Voltaire
We exist within the question of God.
~ William Barrett
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
~ Xenocrates