Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

There is more truth in honest doubt, Believe me, than in all the creeds.

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

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

Religion was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were taught in all the other classes.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

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

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

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.