Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

Try to live as if there were a God

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

The nature of things is dharma.

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

The Gay Science, section 108

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

Truth is the right designation of God.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.