Believe Quote by Bertrand Russell

“With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of…

— Athenagoras

Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists…

— Catherine Wilson

“still the teachings of the philosophers are not the commandments of the gods, but the discoveries of men, who, at the prompting of their…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Theologians could not even agree about the nature of their gods. These personages ranged from "blue touch-paper gods" who started everything and never interfered…

— P.W. Atkins

Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa…

— Sarada Devi

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

— Benjamin Stillingfleet

Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and…

— Pierre Hadot

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

— Margaret Atwood

“The 'human' sense of life, so typical of the modern West, confirms its plebeian and lower aspect. That which some were ashamed of –…

— Julius Evola

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than…

— George Edward Woodberry

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

— Ovid