Quotes About Philosophy

Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I'll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

Death is the inventor of God.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness

I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.

The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.

God would be the strangest thing to exist.

At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

God exists, though He defies reason.

God is the true realistic point where human reason mostly, if not completely, breaks down.

God is the only evil. His vanity made him the devil.

For Man nothing is beyond doubt; for God everything is beyond doubt.

I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.

Justice is useful when money is useless.