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Quotes About Philosophy

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Science has taken away our religion.
~ Bryan Appleyard
My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
~ Voltaire
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.
~ William James
Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.
~ Christopher Fry
Even without a religion, we can become a good human being.
~ Dalai Lama
I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.
~ Damien Hirst
I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.
~ Daniel Dennett
Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion.
~ Deepak Chopra
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
~ Dennis Potter
If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
~ Doris Lessing
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
~ Eddie Izzard
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
~ Edward Abbey
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.
~ Eric Hoffer
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
~ Francis Bacon
I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.
~ Frans de Waal
The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.
~ Frederick Lenz
Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.
~ Freeman Dyson
Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.
~ Freeman Dyson
I think science and religion should be separate.
~ Freeman Dyson
The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana