Religion Philosophy Quotes
Religion Philosophy Quote of the day
The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.
Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.
I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.
The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.
The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter
Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, " said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage
Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.
I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's just us down hereWhat if God is just an ideaSomeone put in your head
The Lord our God reigns!The Lord our God is righteous!
One who does not believe in the self is an atheist. If you believe in yourself, then you are the most religious person on earth.
I am the bridge that connects these two ever- separated banks of human understanding.
The human mind has a primordial affinity towards ideas of miracles and mysticism, especially, in times of weakness.
Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.
We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit
If have the gift of prophesy, all wisdom and knowledge and have no love, I have failed to manifest my true soul.
If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.
Without complicit submission, authority holds no power.
If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs, " then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.
It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths.
It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting.
The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.