Francis Bacon Quotes

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

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in God has, but not atheism. Atheism has never given anyone piece of mind. Atheism has never dried a tear. Atheism has never given an intellectual answer to the creation. Atheism is bankrupt and empty; it's brain dead.

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

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

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

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

I definitely believe in a higher power.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.

I have a strong belief in God.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

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

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

The god of the world's leading religion.

Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.