Quotes About Philosophy

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

I'm still an atheist, thank God.

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

My religion is no way of knowing me.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I'm a born - again atheist.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette?

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.