Quotes About Perspective

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?

You got your God and so do I.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.