Quotes About Religion

religious ideas about death can be profoundly upsetting to people who don't believe them. Sentiments that many believers find comforting — such as Heaven and Hell, or God's plan for life and death — are, for many non-believers, more than just ideas they don't agree with. They are ideas they find distressing, hurtful, and repugnant.

Japanese ideas about religion, architecture, theater, and literature are based on wa and shunyata—concepts of plentitude and uncertainty, of togetherness framed by impermanence.

Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us here on earth to do our duty as citizens and fathers; but I don't need to go to church and kiss silver platters and dig into my pocket to fatten up a lot of humbugs who eat better than you or I do! Because he can be worshiped just as well in a wood, a field, or even just gazing at the ethereal vault, like the ancients.

I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.

Le monde est l'Å"uvre d'un Dieu en délire.

lo que nos demuestra, de paso, que los sacerdotes han estado siempre sumidos en una ignorancia ignominiosa, en la que se esfuerzan por hundir con ellos a los pueblos.

but I don't need to go into a church and kiss a silver platter and reach into my pockets to fatten a pack of humbugs who eat better than we do! Because one can honor him just as well in a forest, in a field, or even by gazing up at the ethereal vault, like the ancients.

Anyone who lacks respect for religion comes to a bad end.

Even now, what I love above all else, is form, provided it be beautiful, and nothing beyond it. Women whose hearts are too ardent and whose minds too exclusive do not understand this religion of beauty, beauty considered apart from emotion. They always demand a cause, an end, I admire tinsel as much as gold: indeed, the poetry of tinsel is even greater, because it is sadder.

Înc? de mic? o cuprinsese una din acele iubiri de copil care au în acelaÈ™i timp puritatea unei religii È™i violenÈ›a unei necesit??i./ Toute petite, elle s'était prise d'un de ces amours d'enfant qui ont à la fois la pureté d'une religion et la violence d'un besoin. (©BeQ)

Voltaire lui-même l'a dit : « Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer.

Le bourgeois (c'est-à-dire l'humanité entière maintenant, y compris le peuple) se conduit envers les classiques comme envers la religion : il sait qu'ils sont, serait fâché qu'ils ne fussent pas, comprend qu'ils ont une certaine utilité très éloignée, mais il n'en use nullement et ça l'embête beaucoup, voilà.

tolérance est le plus sûr moyen d'attirer les âmes à la religion.

Io ho una religione, adoro Iddio, ma non sento per questo la necessità di entrare in una chiesa, baciare dei piatti d'argento e d'ingrassare a mie spere una massa di buffoni che mangiano meglio di noi! Lo si può venerare altrettanto bene in un bosco, in un campo, o anche contemplando la volta celeste come gli antichi. I preti si crogiolano in un'ignoranza crassa, dove si sfororzano di sommergere con loro anche gli altri uomini.

that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.

The raging desire to come to a final conclusion is one the most deadly and sterile obsessions that belong to humanity. Every religion and philosophy has made claims to its own God, to have touched the infinite, to have discovered the recipe for happiness. What pride and what emptiness! To the contrary, I see that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works don't come to final conclusions.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. [ My Uncle Sosthenes ]

And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the German philosopher whose influence is henceforth ineffaceable.

And this is what Lord Byron said, who, nevertheless, loved women: 'They should be well fed and well dressed, but not allowed to mingle with society. They should also be taught religion, but they should ignore poetry and politics, only being allowed to read religious works or cook-books.

Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.

Baz? insanlar, deÄŸiÅŸecek olurlarsa, Tanr?'n?n kendilerini seveceÄŸine inan?rlar. Baz?lar? da Tanr? kendilerini sevdiÄŸi için deÄŸiÅŸmeleri gerektiÄŸine inan?r.

5Debemos respetar la religión del otro, pero solo en el sentido y la misma extensión en que respetamos su teoría de que su mujer es la más guapa y sus niños los más listos.