religion Quotes

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

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:religion evil

“So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:religion reason

“Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart.”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

topic:religion teaching

“RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:knowledge fear religion hope ignorance

“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water!”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:religion nature

“So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a...”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

topic:religion universe

“So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:religion reason belief

“And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

topic:fear religion

“Religion is one of the great civilizing influences of history”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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