Denis Diderot Quotes

Question boldly even the existence of God.

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

If God exists, there's no way he's French

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

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.

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that we don't know and to search—is all right. ... When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a gratitude which is in tune with some religious ideas of God. However, the moment I even speak of it, I am embarrassed that I may do something wrong to God in talking about God.

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

I cannot believe in God when there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being and creator.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if He doesn’t exist, then that too would make Him quite sad, I imagine. So to answer your question, God must be sad.

An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.

It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.