Julian Baggini Quotes

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

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

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

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

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.

People who believe in science have a hard time believing in ghosts and the supernatural.

I've never been a materialist; I've never been somebody who believes in only what we can see and measure. I continue to be a student of religious philosophy, and I continue to take those ideas very seriously.

I'm not really into religion.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

I want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.