Quotes About Philosophy

Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I don't believe in atheists.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

I don't approve of religion.

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Scientology...is not a religion.

Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart