Quotes About Existence

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.

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

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

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.

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

This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

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.

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.

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.

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

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

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

If you want to know why you were jplaced on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

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.

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

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

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.

If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

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