Nancy Pearcey Quotes

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

An atheist is someone who thinks (but doesn't believe) that nothing created everything.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

[Trading] in a materialist age, on the unsatisfied spiritual cravings of mankind. For what do all these phantasms betoken, but a generation ashamed of its own materialism, sensuality, insincerity, ignorance, and striving to escape therefrom by any and every mad superstition which seemed likely to give an answer to the awful questions—What are we, and where?

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

We are each free to believe what we want and it is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.

I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Naturalism is a counterpart to theism. Theism says there's the physical world and God. Naturalism says there's only the natural world. There are no spirits, no deities, or anything else.

There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy.