Quotes About Philosophy

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.

Your mind is your religion.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

THE ART OF PEACE is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.