Rainn Wilson Quotes

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

The lyrics are a lot about those big questions: why are we here, how did we get here, what's the point, and what's next. When those questions come up with fans, I would absolutely share with them what has helped me and where I stand on what it is that I believe.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

Man - a being in search of meaning.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I wouldn't say I'm a religious person, but I am definitely inclined toward asking the big questions.

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.