A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Religion
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Earlier our spending was only confined to offerings made at the temples. But
now, the greediness of the priests have increased so much that in the name of
assurances, they have been robbing people by selling rings, holy threads and
religious rites and rituals.
-Deep Trivedi
I am for religion, against religions.
-Victor Hugo
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
-George Carlin
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.
-Thomas Paine
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
-Philip Pullman
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahamsa"
Other than our 'mind', what is it that we have, which we can call our own?
Everything else is gifted by nature and made usable by science. At the same
time, if you talk of joy of mind, it lies in "art". But then it is difficult to understand
that in this process, where do we feel the need for these 'so-called religions'?
-Deep Trivedi
