Quotes About Philosophy

The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

I regret my disbelief in God.

My books are about killing God.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

I never believed in God and I will never believe in it.

Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest.

We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in.

God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions.

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.