Quotes About Philosophy

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

Money has no religion except itself.

I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.

Jesus was a crackpot.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.