Religion Quotes
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There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered the droughts and floods and plagues. . . .
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Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.
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Money is the wise man's religion.
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
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Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.
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Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.
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Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.
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Myth is someone else's religion.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Some have cited race and religion as the deciding factors, allowing men who jealously guarded their liberty to obliterate the liberty of others who were of a different color and different faiths.
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If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
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I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
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To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants
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After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it naive Religion sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.
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It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.
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No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.
