Quotations
Religion
What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
- Hitopadesa
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
- Thomas Paine
You look at it, but it is not to be seen; Its name is Formless. You listen to it, but it is not to be heard; Its name is Soundless. You grasp it, but it is not to be held; Its name is Bodiless. These three elude all scrutiny. And hence they blend and become one.
- Scriptures
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
- Avicenna
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
- Harry S. Truman
The Hindu world has always accepted 'religion' in its totality; as their 'God' who is free from all attachments has not denied anything, right from wine to dance and violence for the destruction of evil to the worldly life… Then on what grounds, these proprietors of Hindu religion term the 'life fancier' people (the ones indulging in pleasures of life) as sinners and themselves religious?
- Deep Trivedi
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- Ambrose Bierce
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
The three most important things for a human being and his life are time, energy
and money. Religious rites rampantly exploit all three of them.
- Deep Trivedi
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