Life Quote by John D. Barrow

“It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive of such…

— Richard Dawkins

“God is a being than which nothing greater can be conceived.”

— St. Anselm

“Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore,…

— Criss Jami

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

— Anselm of Canterbury

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

— Anselm of Canterbury

“I’ve lost my point. It was to the effect that you can assert the existence of something—Being—having not the slightest notion of what it…

— Marilynne Robinson

“To begin with, if existence arose out of a need for goodness, then it must be essentially mental. In other words, existence must ultimately…

— Jim Holt

“If we possessed the facility to fully plumb the depths of the Creator’s thoughts, He would not be God, because God’s thoughts are beyond…

— Leary Bonnett

By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that…

— Rene Descartes

“God is not only the ultimate reality that the intellect and the will seek but is also the primordial reality with which all of…

— David Bentley Hart

“It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of…

— Alfred Jules Ayer

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a…

— Voltaire