The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
-Avicenna
Quotations
Religion
Religion is just mind control.
-George Carlin
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
The Hindu world has always accepted 'religion' in its totality; as their 'God' who is free from all attachments has not denied anything, right from wine to dance and violence for the destruction of evil to the worldly life… Then on what grounds, these proprietors of Hindu religion term the 'life fancier' people (the ones indulging in pleasures of life) as sinners and themselves religious?
-Deep Trivedi
The whole world is so-called religious...barring a few intellectuals. But then
where does all the anger, miseries, worries, envy, hatred and failure come from?
... Because, conquering all these feelings is only religiousness.
-Deep Trivedi
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous... In the infinite extent of the universe, it is a direction of the heart.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration.
-Sri Aurobindo
All the religions of the world may be good and true. But situated as we are, our own religion is the best for us.
-D. S. Sarma
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
-Thomas Paine
"The Age Of Reason"
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
-Oscar Wilde
