Win Butler Quotes

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Human science and religion have kept company together and greatly assisted each other's progress in the world. I do not say that intellectual and moral qualities are in the same proportion in particular persons; but they have a great and friendly influence upon one another in societies and larger bodies.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

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

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

My degree in theology was an important part of my formation.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

I graduated with a B.A. in philosophy, and it was by far the best major I could have taken in college.

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

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.