On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true. — William James Copy Share Image
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. — Vera Kistiakowsky Copy Share Image
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
“God is logic's corpse, a wound in reason, grammar's empty skin. (1998) It is as obvious to my left brain that there… — Jamey Hecht Copy Share Image
“It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If it is to be established that there is a God, then we have to have good grounds for believing that this… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Theism is a conclusion, so is atheism - none of these two conclusions is the product of serious investigation - one is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“So much enthusiasm about the non-existence of God is somewhat bewildering, as no one appears to be nearly as excited about a… — Vox Day Copy Share Image
“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Atheism is a conclusion reached by the most reasonable methods and one which is not asserted dogmatically but is explained in its… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“In the age of the mechanical philosophy, in which all of nature could be viewed as a boundless collection of brute events,… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a misdemeanor. They found a… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Naturalism is a counterpart to theism. Theism says there's the physical world and God. Naturalism says there's only the natural world. There… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
“It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one… — Michael Bakunin Copy Share Image
