Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive Unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness — an act of trust in the unknown.
-Alan Watts
Quotations
Religion
Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear.
-Bertrand Russell
God has no religion.
-Mahatma Gandhi
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, which has so unfortunately divided man.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
-Mahatma Gandhi
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
-Albert Einstein
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
-Issac Asimov
Hatred and contempt, be it for a thing or a person, has no place in the 'Hindu'
religion... Whereas these so-called Hindu saints are building number of ashrams
by inculcating the unnecessary feeling of 'sinfulness' in you. What kind of Hindu
are you and what kind of saints are these?
-Deep Trivedi
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
-Søren Kierkegaard
