After I left the convent, for fifteen years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it.
Karen ArmstrongA cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe'Religion is the sign of the oppressed... It is the opium of the people.'
Karl MarxI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Benedict SpinozaWhen you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.
Arthur HertzbergReligion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
Austin FarrerEvery man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Heinrich HeineScience is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
Arnold ToynbeeGenius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah MoreOperationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. (Religion without Revelation, 1957)
Sir Julian HuxleyReligion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. [This particular Earl of Chesterfield Lived 1694 - 1773]
Earl Of ChesterfieldI look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore
William MelmothScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert EinsteinLife is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim.
Giuseppe MazziniAdversity reminds men of religion
LivyA myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James FeiblemanMy great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D H LawrenceFor me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinWell! Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a snug little property
Maria EdgeworthA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side
AristotleJust in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill GatesBut to us, probability is the very guide of life (The Analogy of Religion)
Joseph ButlerNothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund BurkeThe first time I sang in the Church choir, two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred AllenAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree
Albert EinsteinAll religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
EpictetusIt is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonI won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl SandburgWhenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
Henry MillerA great Pope - our most outstanding fellow countryman, the Holy Father, a good father to all of us, believers and non-believers, followers of different religions - is no more. [On Pope John Paul II]
Aleksander KwasniewskiFormerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas SzaszA glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
John SeldenAll humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore De BalzacIn England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce
Francesco CaraccioloLet us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Robert G IngersollGenius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness
Hannah More'If you're writing songs, there are two things that you just don't write about: politics and religion. We write about both.'
BonoThere is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
Harold WilsonReligion is the highest vanity.
Friedrich HebbelLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckThe main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas HardyFear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas HobbesAs a singer, I've had many opportunities to travel, and one thing I've learned is that through my music, I can be accepted by people all over the world. I often wonder why so many of us can't accept people who are different here, in our country? It's just not fair to be prejudiced against those whose race, religion or colour aren't the same as ours.
Celine DionMayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose BierceThe true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew ArnoldThink of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
Carl SaganI care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it
Abraham LincolnUnless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
EpictetusMy country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine
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