Quotes About Philosophy

The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

I do engineering, not religion.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

Spirituality is not a religion... It is a way of life.

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.