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Topic·Existence of God✕clear

Philosophical literature

God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 9.8

Song · Pop music

Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky.

Imagine · 1971

★ 9.7

Philosophical literature

"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!"

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 7.6

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

1768

★ 7.1

Epigram · Philosophical literature

God is, or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separates us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?... If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.

Pensees · 1662

★ 7.0

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.

2

★ 7.0

But what will become of men then? I asked him, without God and immortal life?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov · 1880

★ 5.6

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert G. Ingersoll

1874

★ 5.3

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Boris Grushenko

Love and Death · 1975

★ 5.2

Play · Tragedy (play)

Twas only fear first in the world made gods.

1603

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea.

Meditations on First Philosophy · 1641

★ 3.7

Film · Fantasy drama (film) · Drama (film) · Fantasy drama · Drama

Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.

The Seventh Seal · 1957

★ 3.7

Philosophical speech

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

Pragmatism · 1906

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

1927

★ 3.5

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

1937

★ 3.5

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

The Mackerel Plaza · 1958

★ 3.5

In the end, belief and the lack of it amount to the same thing. If someone were to prove to me-right this minute-that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

1982

★ 2.5

Scripture · Religious literature

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

Psalm 14:1

450 BC

★ 2.0

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent.

1896

★ 1.9

Play · Modernist literature

Let us pray to God... The bastard! He doesn't exist!

1957

★ 1.9

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