Quotes About Philosophy

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist.

If there were a god, there would be no need for religion. If there were not a god, there would be no need for religion.

Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

God is the explanation of all things.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.

Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.

One of my professors said to me once, "Any god that can be killed off will be killed, but if I can shake up your faith in your god, it means you already don't have much of a god."

In other words, they decided right from the start that there's no God, and they're setting out to try to prove that there's no God, ... That's their bias to start with.

I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.

God is dead and I am his replacement.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.