Quotes About Philosophy

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

My own mind is my own church.

I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

Tea...is a religion of the art of life.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

There is zero evidence for god.

We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.

We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.