Eric Gill Quotes

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

I wouldn't say I'm a religious person, but I am definitely inclined toward asking the big questions.

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

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

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

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

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

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is 'The Brothers Karamazov.'

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

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.

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it

Human science and religion have kept company together and greatly assisted each other's progress in the world. I do not say that intellectual and moral qualities are in the same proportion in particular persons; but they have a great and friendly influence upon one another in societies and larger bodies.

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

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

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

My faith guides my life.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.