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Quotes About Philosophy

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
~ Alan W. Watts
Question with boldness even the existence of a god.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
~ Epicurus
The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
~ Al-Ma?arri
What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
~ Sam Harris
The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion
~ David Hume
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
~ Will Rogers
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
~ George Orwell
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
~ George Orwell
They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious, who have no intellect.
~ Al-Ma?arri
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
~ Okakura Kakuzo
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God
~ Thomas Jefferson
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
~ Voltaire
Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all of which are ruled by Satan, the personification of the Left Hand Path.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
Religion is the opiate of the people.
~ Karl Marx
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
~ Mark Twain
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.
~ George Clinton
It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
~ Ricky Gervais