Quotes About Philosophy

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.

Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?

When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"

As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.

I probably believe in God in a non-denominational way.

I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

Some people need God and some people need science.

Dieu, c'est le voile mystérieux sous lequel nous cachons notre ignorance de la cause première. God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.