Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.

World War II proves there's no God.

This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if He is as little as that, He is beneath it.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

Hey, let's get serious... God knows what he's doin' He wrote this book here And the book says: 'He made us all to be just like Him', So... If we're dumb... Then God is dumb... (And maybe even a little ugly on the side)

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

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

In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.