Quotations
Religion
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
- Swami Vivekananda
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.
- Deb Caletti
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Seneca the Younger
If you think even for a moment, how much valuable resources and precious time
of the world is being eaten up by these so-called religions in exchange of "false
hopes"; then today itself the shutters of all the temples, mosques, churches and
other religious places will be pulled down and many schools and hospitals will
come up instead.
- Deep Trivedi
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
- Lenny Bruce
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
- Voltaire
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