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"
Quotations
Religion
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
-Philip Pullman
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
-Joseph Campbell
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
-Ambrose Bierce
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Self-Reliance and Other Essays"
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
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
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.
-Thomas Paine
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
-Richard Francis Burton
