Single Idea 2641

[catalogued under 28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism]

Full Idea

Did you ever actually see a god? Then why do you believe that gods exist?

Gist of Idea

Why believe in gods if you have never seen them?

Source

M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], I.88)

Book Reference

Cicero: 'The Nature of the Gods', ed/tr. McGregor,Horace [Penguin 1972], p.105