Elias Canetti Quotes

Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

You just don't get funding to go out and find God. Even if you did, you'd have to first define what you mean by 'God.'

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

What are the chances there is a God, really?

I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

I don't know how to put this gently, but I'm trying to tackle the biggest question of all, which is the God question.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

I think there will always be a possibility that God doesn't exist because He is infinitude and into that infinitude must come that possibility.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

God is great.

The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

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

The existence of a single atheist does not disprove the existence of God.

If you can define what God is, I can tell you whether I believe in it.

I am, therefore there is a God.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.