„It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.“
— Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824
„God was always invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.“
interview published in Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1988) edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, p. 208-209
Kontext: God was always invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
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Richard Feynman4
US-amerikanischer Physiker und Nobelpreisträger des Jahres … 1918 - 1988Ähnliche Zitate
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, buch Der kleine Prinz
Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours leur donner des explications.
Le Petit Prince (1943)
— Rajneesh Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement 1931 - 1990
God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth (1989) YouTube video of the lecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBEIeRSLb8k
Kontext: It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead — I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction. Certainly it has given consolation, but consolation is not the right thing! Consolation is opium. It keeps you unaware of the reality, and life is flowing past you so quickly — seventy years will be gone soon. Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth. The very desire to find the truth disappears. But in the beginning it is bitter if all your belief systems are taken away from you. The fear and anxiety which you have been suppressing for millennia, which is there, very alive, will surface immediately. No God can destroy it, only the search for truth and the experience of truth — not a belief — is capable of healing all your wounds, of making you a whole being. And the whole person is the holy person to me.
„You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.“
— Robert Fulghum, buch All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
„Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.“
— Gabrielle Zevin American writer 1977
Quelle: All These Things I've Done
„For one thing, God didn't invent the circumcision, I did.“
— Chris Pontius American actor 1974
Satan vs. God- Jackass Episodes]
„If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.“
— Robert Browning, Men and Women
"Fra Lippo Lippi", line 217.
Men and Women (1855)
Quelle: The Poems of Robert Browning
„There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.“
— John Von Neumann Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath 1903 - 1957
As quoted in John Von Neumann : The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence and Much More (1992) by Norman Macrae, p. 379
„A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.“
— Federico Fellini Italian filmmaker 1920 - 1993
"Creation"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
„The idiots always rose to the top and made policy.
It explained a lot of things.“
— Jack McDevitt American novelist, Short story writer 1935
Quelle: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 22 (p. 200)
„God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.“
— Jacques Deval French film director and writer 1890 - 1972
Quoted in Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations (1992), p. 22
— José Saramago Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 - 2010
Interview with "El País", 2009.
— James Clavell, buch The Children's Story
"Teacher"
The Children's Story (1982)
„To explain God would be to have no God, my little one.“
— Halldór Laxness, buch The Atom Station
Ugla's father
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
— Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
Kontext: If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
I would also want a God who would not allow a Hell. Infinite torture can only be a punishment for infinite evil, and I don't believe that infinite evil can be said to exist even in the case of Hitler. Besides, if most human governments are civilized enough to try to eliminate torture and outlaw cruel and unusual punishments, can we expect anything less of an all-merciful God?
I feel that if there were an afterlife, punishment for evil would be reasonable and of a fixed term. And I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.
„The reasons why I do things are difficult for me to understand and difficult for me to explain.“
— Vincent Gallo American film director, writer, model, actor and musician 1961
Another Man Essay
