Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith.

We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god.

I respect and honor all four great Prophets: Jesus Christ, Mohamed, Moses and Buddha, so that I can appeal to any one of them in heaven

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.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and... preposterous.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

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 come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God.