Baron d'Holbach Quotes

Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if He is as little as that, He is beneath it.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

Space is the stature of God.

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

God has no resolve; no karma attaches itself to Him.

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.