Quotes About Philosophy

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.