Quotes About Philosophy

The eternal Being is forever if he is at all.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.

Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many?

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

Thank God I'm not a Jungian.

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

I pray there's a God...I know there's an Oprah.

Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god. But these were people who in their times were criticized as infidels.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

God is God. His name doesn't matter.

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.

Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?