Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

God is dead!

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

The absurd is sin without God.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

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

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.