992 private quotes tagged religion

“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.” — Carl Sagan

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“I'm religiously opposed to religion.” — Victor Hugo

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“Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.” — Edmund Burke

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“Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.” — Alan Watts

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“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.” — Thomas Paine

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“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.” — Voltaire

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“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” — Dalai Lama

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“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” — Karl Marx

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“Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.” — Mark Twain

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“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.” — Albert Einstein

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“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Wonder is the basis of worship.” — Thomas Carlyle

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