Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
-Seneca the Younger "Seneca the Younger"
Quotations
Religion
-Seneca the Younger "Seneca the Younger"
What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
-Hitopadesa "Hitopadesa"
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
-Richard Francis Burton
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
-Richard Dawkins
"The God Delusion"
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
-David Mitchell
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet"
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
-Oscar Wilde
Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.
-Christopher Paolini
"Brisingr"
Don't know why religious people and their religious sentiments are so weak that
they get hurt every now and then... As such it is understandable, the slightest
tremor is enough to cause the debilitated structures to collapse.
-Deep Trivedi
Religions grow when religious leaders die.
-J. Krishnamurti
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
-Bill Maher
