Quotes About Philosophy

The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

Evolution is faith, a religion.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

Religion will never show the way.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.