Quotes About Philosophy

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don't really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Satan's first strategy is to keep religion intellectual.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.