Max Planck Quotes

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

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

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

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.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

I have read a lot of spiritual works and believe that our body is just a place for the soul to dwell.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Faith is not the opposite of reason.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

The true religion of Jesus Christ our Saviour is that which penetrates, and which receives all the warmth of the heart, and all the elevation of the soul, and all the energies of the understanding, and all the strength of the will.

... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

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

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.