Quotes About Belief

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.