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Quotes About Philosophy

I am an atheist, thanks be to God.
~ Luis Bunuel
All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
May God protect us from all the religions!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
~ Nick Cave
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
~ Nicolas Malebranche
I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.
~ Richard Dawkins
Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.
~ Ricky Gervais
If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.
~ Robert Breault
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
~ Saint Augustine
Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.
~ Stephen Fry
I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.
~ Billy Graham
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain
~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
~ James Frey
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.
~ Graham Greene
If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
~ Jo Walton, Among Others
The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
~ Bill Gaede
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
~ Honore de Balzac
I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.
~ Bjorn Lomborg
Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.
~ Alain de Botton
The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
~ Alain de Botton
As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
~ Alan Lightman
If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
~ Albert Camus