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Quotes About Philosophy

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.
~ Emily Susan Rapp
My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.
~ Eugenie de Guerin
Is evolution just another name for God?
~ Frank Herbert
I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
~ Franz Grillparzer
To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.
~ Frederick Lenz
There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.
~ Frederick Lenz
Almost two thousand years, and no new god!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.
~ Gary Sloan
There is no scientific way to validate anything that I or you can say about the soul because science cannot validate the existence of the soul any more that it can prove the existence of God.
~ Gary Zukav
If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.
~ Gautama Buddha
Even if there isn't a God, I believe in the one we've created.
~ Gbenga Akinnagbe
God: personified incomprehensibility.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
~ George Bernard Shaw