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Quotes About Philosophy

God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
~ Voltaire
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
~ Voltaire
I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
~ Albert Einstein
If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.
~ Voltaire
The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
~ Voltaire
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.
~ Stephen Hawking
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.
~ Stephen Hawking
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing.
~ Isaac Asimov
I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,
~ Walt Whitman
He was a wise man who invented God.
~ Plato
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)
~ Voltaire
Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The more you rely on intellectual and philosophical concepts of God, the more difficult it becomes to simply experience and enjoy the wonder of God.
~ Mac MacKenzie
How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfet raigns.
~ John Milton, Comus
God's only excuse is that he does not exist
~ Stendhal
Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.
~ Johnny Hart
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
~ Henri Matisse
And if there is no god?You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
~ Kingsley Amis
How would this world be if there was not God? The answer is simple: it would become itself God.
~ Sorin Cerin
All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion.
~ Ash Vaz
We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.
~ Simone Weil
When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy