Miranda July Quotes

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

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

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

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

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any clearly useful data on matters of sin and souls.

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart

Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.

As does every young man studying philosophy, I naturally asked myself questions about the truth of all this, and about the meaning of freedom, predestination, and liberty of choice and so on. But to have asked questions of yourself about it, I think is not too important. Let's say - I remain - I remained a believer.

It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.