Quotes About Thought

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

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.

The very thought of such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of self superiority, and their callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage.

We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity.

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.