Quotes About Religion

The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.

P?catul este expresia religioas? a remu?c?rii.

Nu sunt anticreÅŸtin, eu reproÅŸez creÅŸtinismului c? nu e indeajuns de profund ca budismul. Am ales între Cer ÅŸi Nirvana.

Când n-ai m?sur? în nimic, te m?sori cu Dumnezeu. Orice exces ni-l apropie. C?ci El nu-i decât incapacitatea noastr? de a ne opri undeva. Tot ce n-are margine - iubirea, furia, nebunia, ura - e de esen?? religioas?.

Eu s? m? duc la zei? N-au decât s? vin? ei la mine!», i-a r?spuns Plotin discipolului s?u Amelius, care voia s?-l duc? la o ceremonie religioas?. La cine, în lumea creÅŸtin?, ai s? mai întâlneÅŸti un orgoliu de asemenea calitate?

I would not want to live in a world drained of all religious feeling. I am not thinking of faith but of that inner vibration, which, independent of any belief in particular, projects you into and sometimes above God.

Dup? ce-ai gustat dezam?git din otrava religiei, tov?r??ia muzicii te dezlipe?te de accidentele decep?iei.

Retras la Å£ar? dup? moartea fiicei sale Tulia, Cicero, copleÅŸit de mâhnire, îÅŸi adresa lui însuÅŸi scrisori de consolare. Ce p?cat c? nu au fost g?site ÅŸi, mai mult decât atât, ce p?cat c? aceast? terapie nu a devenit curent?! E drept c?, de-ar fi fost adoptat?, religiile d?deau de mult faliment.

Religiile, ca ÅŸi ideologiile care le-au moÅŸtenit viciile, nu sunt decât cruciade împotriva umorului.

P?catul este expresia religioas? a remu?c?rii, precum regretul expresia ei poetic?. Primul este o limit? superioar?; ultimul, una inferioar?

La conciencia ha convertido al animal en hombre y al hombre en demonio, pero todavía no ha transformado a nadie en Dios, y ello a pesar de que nos vanagloriamos de haber enviado uno a la cruz.

As long as there a single god standing, mankind's work isn't finished.

As long as there is a single god standing, mankind's work will not be finished.

el budismo te permite acceder a una religión sin tener fe. El budismo es una religión que tan sólo propugna el conocimiento. Te enseña que no somos sino compuestos, que esos compuestos se disuelven, que no tienen realidad, te demuestra tu irrealidad y después te dice: ahora, saca las consecuencias.

Only normal that man should no longer be interested in religion but in religions, for only through them will he be in a position to understand the many versions of his spiritual collapse.

patíbulos, calabouços e masmorras só prosperam à sombra de uma fé - dessa necessidade de crer que infestou o espírito para sempre. O diabo empalidece comparado a quem dispõe de uma verdade, de sua verdade.

If the Jews have not inflicted Him upon us, they nevertheless bear the responsibility of having conceived Him. That is a flaw in their genius. They could have done better.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Conquest and Inquisition—parallel phenomena, products of Spain's imposing vices.

Invest them elsewhere; in any case, we do not serve the same gods.

O Satan, my Master, I give myself unto thee forever!" How I regret not remembering the name of the nun who, having written these words with a nail dipped in her own blood, deserves to figure in an anthology of prayer and concision.

Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create fake gods, he then feverishly adopts them: his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike. His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.

The confessional? a rape of conscience perpetrated in the name of heaven. And that other rape, psychological analysis

The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.