"We have invented God. The thinking created god for itself. That means due to unhappiness, fear and depression we created something called god. God did not create us after his imagination, I wish He had."

Unknown source


"Out of confusion, you invent something permanent - the Absolute, the Brahman or God."

Unknown source


"I wonder how many of you realize that we are put together by thought. Your gods are put together by thought."

Unknown source


"God is invented by man. I am sure that you won’t like this. But you are attached to that concept: God exists."

Unknown source


"We have now got tribal Gods at every corner because the world has become uncertain, dangerous, and we want to belong to some group, some sect, some local god."

Unknown source


"There is nothing sacred in the temple, in the mosque, in the churches. They are all the inventions of thought."

Unknown source


"It is tradition, the accumulation of experience, the ashes of memory, that make the mind old. The mind that dies every day to the memories of yesterday, to all the joys and sorrows of the past--such a mind is fresh, innocent, it has no age; and without that innocence, whether you are ten or sixty, you will not find God."

Think on These Things


"The men who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima said that God was with them; those who flew from England to destroy Germany said that God was their co-pilot. The dictators, the prime ministers, the generals, the presidents, all talk of God, they have immense faith in God. Are they doing service, making a better life for man? The people who say they believe in God have destroyed half the world and the world is in complete misery."

The First and Last Freedom, p.205


"You all believe in different ways, but your belief has no reality whatsoever. Reality is what you are, what you do, what you think, and your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life."

The First and Last Freedom, p.206


"God is an idea depending on the climate, the enviroment, and the tradition in which you have been brought up."

On God