Amiri Baraka Quotes

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

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

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

I don't believe in God.

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

The absurd is sin without God.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.

Whatsoever is, is in God.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.