Denis Diderot Quotes

As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

I don't believe in the afterlife.

I remember when I first encountered anthropocentrism. I was in primary school and, in preparation for our confirmation, the class was learning about the afterlife.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

… we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.

Religions are, for the most part, bad. But religion is not.

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

I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

I'm a big fan of talking about God. Whether people believe in God or not, that's so fascinating. Or where you go when you die is fascinating.

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.