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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana1863–1952Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
- Atheism
Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon either within or outside himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), pp. 33–34
- Atheism
Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men.
Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980The Flies (1943), Act 3
- Freedom
To forbid the making of pictures about God would be to forbid thinking about God at all, for man is so made that he has no way to think except in pictures.
Dorothy L. Sayers1893–1957
The chief objection I have to Pantheism is that it says nothing. To call the world “God” is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word “world”.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860On Pantheism as quoted in Faiths of Famous Men in Their Own Words (1900) by John Kenyon Kilbourn
- Philosophy
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they’re probably worshipping the same god.
Ridley Scottborn 1937Esquire interview (2012)
- Religion
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter X: On living to oneself, Line 5.
- Prayer
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act III, Scene III, spoken by KingIn context
- Prayer
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act V, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act V, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
- Life & Death
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods,
They kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by GloucesterIn context
- Life & Death
Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember’d.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act III, Scene I, spoken by HamletIn context
- Prayer
When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #83
- Anti-Religion
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
- Charity