Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.

… like looking for an atheist in heaven

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

I'm totally secular, but I'm scared like hell of God.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

There is no God and we are his prophets.

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.

Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.