Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.

Theology is a subject without an object

[Søren ] Kierkegaard said it for me a long time ago. He said, 'You can't really think yourself into a faith, into a religion. It's something you have to make a leap into faith.' And I've never been able to do that. I wish I could. Then maybe I could believe in an afterlife.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

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

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

I've always been interested in apologetics, the topic of different world views and, 'Why are we here?' and 'Where are we going?' I grew up in the church, and sometimes kids who grew up in a church can be sheltered and can't engage with people with different world views.

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

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 guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

For me, there is a basic recognition of horror as the most open doorway where the intersection of philosophical and religious ideas can come tighter.

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

If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

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.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

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

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

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

The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's 'The Devils' no less than the art of Giotto or the 'Passions' of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God.