Religion Philosophy Quotes
Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.
By believing in an imaginary invisible supernatural entity, humans may become good citizens. But this is not religion. This is merely an illusion of religion.
Excessive religiosity is killing so many religious people knowingly or unknowingly
The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands - that poverty is blessed and yet ought to be removed.
...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.
The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.
So your High Priest and Sacerdote propose to kill Death.” Edroc
We understood it was possible to know things one was not supposed to know…” Lone Walk From Panther Creek.
A wise teacher is a keen and true student of absolute beauty and truth, and he searches everywhere for them in nature with all his heart
In the hands of thinking humanity, the purpose of the tool of Divinity or Religion is not the service of bookish doctrines, but the realization of the self.
Dare to contradict the scientist, not because of your scripture, but because of your own rational thinking.
What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.
While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.
He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .
Wisdom plus knowledge equals understanding.
If you don’t act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.
down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us
The poor, the illiterate, the helpless, the distressed — let these be your God.
Any religion that does not evolve with time, either gets destroyed or destroys the world.
Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.
Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.
...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.
All religions are mere echoes of this one great religion of Humanism.
Not bad, not bad at all, " Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
Religion without reason is like making love without love.
The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.
If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.
Let your conscience be your scripture and your actions be your religion. Let the humans be your church and compassion be your worship. Let love be your gospel and acceptance be your revelation.