religion Quotes

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in a nation's life.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, and there's this couple lying naked in bed reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Resurrection. Do they know how to have a...”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

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“cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest incitement to scientific research.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”

― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

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“Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave.”

― Carl Sagan, Contact

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“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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