Penn Jillette Quotes

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

I believe in God and immortality.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.