Quotes About Philosophy

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.

Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

I'd describe myself as a Christian who doesn't believe in God.

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]

All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?

I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can't have that kind of thing, cut it out!"

When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.

There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.