Quotes About Philosophy

Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world.

We need a new religion.

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

I believe I have a healthy common sense and therefore have no need for religion.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Without God all things are permitted.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.

I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Not believing in anything is also a religion .

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.