Quotes about Philosophy
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
— CS Lewis
I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
— William James
God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.
— Max Lucado
We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'
— Oprah Winfrey
I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin
— RC Sproul Jr.
The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.
— Reinhold Niebuhr