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Quotes About Philosophy

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.
~ Steven Weinberg
A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.
~ Joseph Goebbels
Religion poisons everything good in this world.
~ Unknown
It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
~ Émile Durkheim
Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
~ Heraclitus
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
~ Josh Lanyon
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
~ Bertrand Russell
All bibles are man-made.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
~ Sigmund Freud
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.
~ Max Stirner
I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.
~ John Henrik Clarke
We could plan a murder Or start a religion.
~ Jim Morrison
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.
~ Brad Pitt
Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
~ Albert Einstein
All religions have been made by men.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
~ Bertrand Russell
If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.
~ Peter Kreeft
Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.
~ H. L. Mencken
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
~ Richard Dawkins