Quotes About Existence

There is no God and we are his prophets.

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

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

There is zero evidence for god.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

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.

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'.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.