 If it turns out that there is a god, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.
– Woody Allen (1935-) |
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Quotations about gods
Albert Einstein – Beauty of the mysterious
 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the Mysterious — the knowledge of the existence of something unfathomable to us, the manifestation of the most profound reason coupled with the most brilliant beauty. I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, or who has a will of the kind we experience in ourselves. I am satisfied with the mystery of life’s eternity and with the awareness of — and glimpse into — the marvelous construction of the existing world together with the steadfast determination to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Thomas Jefferson – Question with boldness
 Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
– Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) |
Fyodor Dostoevsky – Beauty is mysterious and terrible
 Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) |
Friedrich Nietzsche – A God who wants to be praised
 I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15, 1844-Aug 25, 1900) |
Thomas Jefferson – The legitimate powers of government
| The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
– Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) |
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Religion that is afraid of science
 The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God’s empires but is not the immutable universal law. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion and making way for truth.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
Edward Abbey – God is a sound people make
 God is a sound people make when they’re too tired to think anymore.
– Edward Abbey (1927-1989) |
Richard Feynman – This fantastically marvelous universe
 It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil – which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
– Richard Feynman (1918-1988) |
Edward Abbey – Whatever we cannot understand
| Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
– Edward Abbey (1927-1989) |
Bertrand Russell – Only in thought is man a god
 Only in thought is man a god; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
– Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
Aldous Huxley – Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity. . .
 Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.
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