Quotes About Existence

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

There is a crack in everything God has made.

People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world to happen.

In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind.

The God that humanity so keenly seeks, lives within the human biology, yet they wander hitherto searching for it.

God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.

When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists.When you see people, you sympathize their existence.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

We are a rather big-headed little species in a vast cosmos which can do without us very well.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Life has a practice of living you if you don't live it.

If there's a God why are there such things as famine and The Jerry Springer Show.