Atheism Quote by Baruch Spinoza Download Open image “Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.” — Baruch Spinoza ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Ends Faith Looks Obedience Philosophy Piety Religion Truth Views
If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer,… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about a way… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is. — Colette Baron-Reid Copy Share Image
To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other words, the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image