Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Religion
To hate man and love god seems to be the sum of all creeds.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration.
-Sri Aurobindo
Question is, why did the truly "intelligent" people distance themselves from
the great personalities like Krishna, Jesus and Buddha? Because, in order to
strengthen their individual businesses, religious gurus associated miracles with
them. Now, an intelligent person may agree with anything but can never accept
'miracles'.
-Deep Trivedi
To die for religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
-Mahatma Gandhi
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln
A religious person is...the one who accepts the responsibility for the success and
failures of his life. The one who entrusts it to rituals, worship, astrology, family or
friends...is irreligious.
-Deep Trivedi
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"
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 "C. S. Lewis"
