Aldous Huxley Quotes

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.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

The scientist insists on verification; the religious theologian does not; the philosopher sometimes does and sometimes does not

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.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

I think spirituality, even if there's no God, even if there's nothing - I consider myself relatively spiritual. I believe in a God. I don't know what it's like, but I do believe in it. It's the only thing that makes any sense. Maybe I'm just looking for order in the chaos. Though, I do believe in Evolution and I do believe in science.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

One of my professors said to me once, "Any god that can be killed off will be killed, but if I can shake up your faith in your god, it means you already don't have much of a god."

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.