Baruch Spinoza Quotes

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

The word for knowledge appears in the Koran more often than any other except God.

Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

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 world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

I definitely believe in God.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

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

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 do believe in God.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

For me, I believe in God, God is real.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

I've always believed in God, from the time I was very, very young. I always knew there was something with me, not necessarily knowing what to call it.

My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. God has nothing to do with science. God has all to do with soul, and who can explain that?