Philosophy Religion Quotes

“Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.”
― Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

“Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.”
― Sidney Hook, Quest for Being

“Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?”
― Kristina McMorris, Letters from Home

“We are ultimately unknowable to ourselves and others. Our past and future are mostly unknowable. God is unknowable. For the present the universe - its origins and its destiny - is unknowable, as is whether there are many universes. Infinity is unknowable. These are some of the fundamental reasons why I call myself an agnostic.”
― Michael Krasny, Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest

“We shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs. ...Hence, once more, the value of philosophy must not depend upon any supposed body of definitely ascertainable knowledge to be acquired by those who study it.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“Reality is what exists whether we believe in it or not.”
― J.A.V. Simson

“The doctrine of the mean (the epithet 'golden' is un-Aristotelian) regularly occurs in later writers as a piece of moral advice -- a recipe or rule reminding us to 'observe the mean', to be moderate in all things and to avoid excess and deciciency. (If the doctrine urges us not to drink too much wine, it equally urges us not to drink too little -- but that is something which the moralizers usually find it prudent to ignore.)”
― Jonathan Barnes, Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction

“You really wanna take care of North Korea? I’ll tell you what to do: grab a couple of devout Christians and dress em’ up as Kim Jong-un and drop their asses into North Korea armed with Bibles and methamphetamines. They’ll either convert everybody or call em’ sinners and murder every last one of them. Problem solved.”
― Aaron B. Powell

“Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Each stage of your life
is like petals of a flower...
unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom...You will blossom and then you die...But know that this is not your ending.”
― Summerlyn Guthrie

“The 'Big Bang' idea of pseudo armchair pundits, too is as much a theory as a human-like big buffoon, that your so-called 'holy' books call god.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas