Billy Corgan Quotes

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.

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

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

One class of philosophers calls every extraordinary appearance a judgment or a sign; another class views everything as the working of matter and motion. These two sets are at war with each other. The one denounces the other as superstitious or atheistical.

The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.

The Left is correctly wary of talk about nonhumans in the key of Nature and its spiritual partner, humanity.

What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?

I'm very interested in Darwinism and how that affects us on a day-to-day level. But I also have a deep interest in theology and the spiritual.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to find kids to hang out with that don't consume a lot of commercial culture.

If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.

I don't even know what memes are, I'm, like, an old person, so I don't really know what a meme is.

I have friends who are scientists, strict materialists, who don't think science and religion are compatible, but I just think most of us - unless you're a strict atheist materialist, which there aren't many of - most of us believe in something outside the material world. And if you do believe that, I don't know how you're not obsessed with it.

It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.