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Quotes about god

Belief, doubt and the divine.

Checked quotes about god

7 quotes with a known source.

Albert EinsteinSourced

I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.

The origin of the shorthand "God does not play dice".

Source: Letter to Max Born (4 December 1926)

Friedrich NietzscheSourced

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

Spoken by "the madman" in a parable — a diagnosis of culture, not a cheer.

Source: The Gay Science, §125 (1882)

VoltaireSourced

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

Source: Epistle to the Author of the Book of the Three Impostors (1770)

Thomas PaineSourced

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Source: Rights of Man, Part II (1792)

Karl MarxSourced

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world… It is the opium of the people.

Source: Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844)

Rabindranath TagoreSourced

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Source: Fireflies (1928)

Famous, but not theirs

Quotes about god that are usually credited to the wrong person.

Fyodor DostoevskyMisquoted

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

The real words: A summary of Ivan Karamazov's argument as other characters report it. The exact sentence is not in the novel.

Victor HugoNot theirs

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Actually: A lyric from the 1980 stage musical Les Misérables, not from Hugo's novel.

Galileo GalileiMisquoted

Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.

The real words: In The Assayer (1623) he wrote that the book of the universe "is written in the language of mathematics" — God is not in the sentence.

G. K. ChestertonNot theirs

When men stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

Actually: A summary of Chesterton's ideas by Émile Cammaerts (1937), not Chesterton's own sentence.