John von Neumann Quotes

There must be a God, because I don't know how things work.

I still can't decide which is silliest; a person believing in a God who 'isn't there,' or a person offended by a God whom he doesn't believe exists.

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.

What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I'm really an agnostic.

There must be a God because he made me.

Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

If God exists, there's no way he's French

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

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.

I believe in God, and I'm a Christian.

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

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.