Quotes About Meaning

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

All neurotics seek the religious

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

The home of Religion is the heart.

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.

The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

Not believing in anything is also a religion .

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

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

Religion will never show the way.

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