The role of religion should be to inculcate a sense not of infallibility but of humility.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. Only learning what one does not know can rescue one from the lost world in which everyone claims to have THE answer.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
The role of religion should be to inculcate a sense not of infallibility but of humility.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life — except religion.
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps. Too often in the history of religion, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hated in the name of the God of love, and practiced cruelty in the name of the God of compassion.
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life — except religion.
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
The role of religion should be to inculcate a sense not of infallibility but of humility.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
When religion turns men into murderers, God weeps. Too often in the history of religion, people have killed in the name of the God of life, waged war in the name of the God of peace, hated in the name of the God of love, and practical cruelty in the name of the God of compassion.
O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience, and recent scientific findings.
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All religions, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
Someone is Hindu, someone is Muslim, someone is Christian / Everyone is hell-bent on not becoming a human being.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
As for future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.
With soap baptism is a good thing.
There’s no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
Religion is the opiate of the people.
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian.
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.
One religion is as true as another.
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
I don’t see why religion and science can’t get along. What’s wrong with counting our blessings with a computer?
A good life is the only religion.