Quotations
Religion
Hanuman is the breath of Rama, the breath of God. God is not far away from us but as close as our breath. Symbolically Hanuman represents the breath, our constant companion and aid along the spiritual path.
- A Spiritual Leader
Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration.
- Sri Aurobindo
Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
- Karl Marx
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
- Abu'l Ala Al Ma'arri
Religions grow when religious leaders die.
- J. Krishnamurti
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
- C. S. Lewis
Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
- J. Krishnamurti
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