Al Goldstein Quotes

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

'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.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

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

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

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

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

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

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.