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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
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Louis Aragon(1897-1982, French poet) |
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| The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Matthew Arnold(1822-1888, British poet, critic) |
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| There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others.
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Roger Babson(1875-1967, American statistician, columnist) |
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| It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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Francis Bacon(1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman) |
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| The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
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Mikhail Bakunin(1814-1876, Russian political theorist) |
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| Religion: a daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, The Devil's Dictionary) |
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| My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.
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Herman Boerhaave(1668-1738, Dutch physician, botanist) |
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| Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
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Phillips Brooks(1835-1893, American minister, poet) |
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| And lips say "God be pitiful," who never said, "God be praised."
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806-1861, British poet) |
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| Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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Patrick Buchanan(1938-, American statesman) |
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| Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
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Edmund Burke(1729-1797, British political writer, statesman) |
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| One gives praise to God not only through prayers of thanksgiving, but also through obedience to His commandments and service to others, especially those less fortunate than ourselves.
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George H. Bush(1924-, American President (41st)) |
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| I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...
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Lord Byron(1788-1824, British poet) |
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| A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton(1874-1936, British author) |
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| If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
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Emile Auguste Chartier |
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| A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834, British poet, critic, philosopher) |
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| Religion! What treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
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William Cowper(1731-1800, British poet) |
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| Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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Benjamin Disraeli(1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
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Albert Einstein(1879-1955, German-born American physicist) |
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| The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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| Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
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Ludwig Feuerbach(1804-1872, German philosopher) |
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| Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen.
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Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat) |
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| Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.
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Sigmund Freud(1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis) |
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| Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
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Northrop Frye(1912-1991, Canadian literary critic) |
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| Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed.
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John Galsworthy(1867-1933, British novelist, playwright) |
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| Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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George Gurdjieff(1873-1949, Russian adept, teacher, writer) |
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| All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will.
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Alexander Herzen(1812-1870, Russian journalist, political thinker) |
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| It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
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Edward Hoagland(1932-, American novelist, essayist) |
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| For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
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Thomas Hobbes(1588-1679, British philosopher) |
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| To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Eric Hoffer(1902-1983, American author, philosopher) |
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| I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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Bob Hope(1903-2003, American comedian, actor) |
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| Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.
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Elbert Hubbard(1859-1915, American author, publisher) |
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| The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammedanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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Victor Hugo(1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist) |
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| Toleration is the best religion.
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Victor Hugo(1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist) |
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| We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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Victor Hugo(1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist) |
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| You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
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Aldous Huxley(1894-1963, British author) |
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| To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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Dean William R. Inge(1860-1954, Dean of St. Paul's, London) |
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| There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
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William James(1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author) |
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| I have tried to keep things in my hands and lost them all, but what I have given into the Lord's hands I still possess.
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Martin Luther King Jr.(1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader, Nobel Prize winner, 1964) |
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| A man with God is always in the majority.
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John Knox(1505-1572, Scottish historian, reformer) |
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| Perdition shall be the lot of man, except for those who have faith and do good works and exhort each other to justice and fortitude.
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The Koran(c. 500 AD, Islamic Religious Bible) |
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| When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
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Karl Kraus(1874-1936, Austrian satirist) |
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| To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!
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Jean De La Bruyere(1645-1696, French classical writer) |
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| Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
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C. S. Lewis(1898-1963, British academic, writer, Christian apologist) |
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| I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
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Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593, British dramatist, poet) |
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| Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne(1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist) |
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| After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900, German philosopher) |
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| There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
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Suzanne Lafollette |
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| My religion is very simple, my religion is kindness.
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Dalai Lama |
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| A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
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D. H. Lawrence(1885-1930, British author) |
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